Ken Loach Quotes

Making commercial cinema is very tough.

It's never easy getting an independent film made and distributed - even when it's easy.

French cinema has always been very interesting, and it's still very powerful. I think it goes to show that it's great to still have a cinema that doesn't try to emulate, for example, American cinema.

For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.

It's incredibly, incredibly difficult to get a movie made.

It's hard to make a film in Britain. It's hard to raise money. The best stuff that is shot on film in Britain is usually shot on film for television.

It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.

As a rule, Michael Balcon was at great pains to ensure Ealing remained very British. There was no point our trying to be MGM, and we didn't see a lot of American stars.

I have always thought we should think less about the British film industry as an entity, and more about getting British talent working.

It takes a long time to get a film made.

It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.

I think indie films have more of a fresh, experimental vibe about them, whereas studio films know what they want and can basically get it.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.

In the U.S., it would be so much better if the studios made many more smaller films for niche markets rather than a few tent pole films that swamp cinemas and Hoover up all the funding.

Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Shooting films in Britain is always difficult, because we've never got enough money to make them.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.

When I make films, I work with Mike Leigh, who's the most prolific director in England.

I had originally done a production called 'The Resistance.' It was one of those underground guerilla things, very low budget. Then Starz and Ghost House ended up picking it up and funding it, and we reshot it.