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.”

“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.”

“The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.”

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

“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.”

“I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.”