Ken Loach
Ken Loach

The far right was on the march in the 1930s, and we defeated the fascists through a great united working-class effort. That sense of unity and strength is what gave people confidence to change things.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

I don't think films about working class people are sad at all; I think they're funny and lively and invigorating and warm and generous and full of good things.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

We have to defend the migrant workers and give them our support and demand that they have the rights that workers here have from day one, but absolutely hate the system that forces people to leave their country, leave their homes, leave their families, to go somewhere else to be exploited.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

A journalist uses the most precise words he or she can. An artist does the same sort of thing. You gather material about a particular subject, you refine it as best you can.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

Jeremy Corbyn's election was the most hopeful thing since the Labour Party began. He's the first Labour leader who's ever stood on the picket line along with workers.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

Cannes is the largest festival of world cinema.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that some people thought we should leave.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to the food bank or wherever and there's laughter, there's comedy, there's stupidity, there's silliness and warmth. And that's the reality of people's lives. If you cut out that sense of humor and warmth, you miss the point.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make it.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.

Ken Loach
Ken Loach

I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.