Quotes About Ken Loach

As has become evident in recent years, there are those on the far left who also engage in denial. During a BBC interview in September 2017 on leftist antisemitism within Britain's Labour Party, Ken Loach was asked to comment on a session at the party's annual conference where a participant called for a "yes or no" discussion of the Holocaust. Loach's rather ambiguous response: "I think history is for us all to discuss, wouldn't you?

My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools were free, so there was a security of knowing that the war had finished and families would come together again.

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

We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. 'Jimmy's Hall' would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later.

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

It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him.

I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.

Personally, I don't give a toss about French viewers. I make films for foreigners - it's a bit like Ken Loach, who's not very popular in England but has had a lot of success in France. Cinema is always an experience in a foreign body.