Andrew Haigh Quotes

English people are so trapped in this class paradigm.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

I reject absolutely the idea that people should know their place, and know their class.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably stems from feeling like an outcast.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

The division of society into estates or castes means in effect that conceptually and organizationally these ‘natural’ forms are established without their economic basis ever becoming conscious

Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.

In England, the class system is about a thousand years old, and it's not going to change any time soon.

The whole idea of 'Death Line' was to kind of highlight class distinctions in England more than to make a scary movie, and I just kind of wrapped my political treatise of the class distinctions in England in this movie.

When one English person speaks, another one immediately classifies him. No class system in the world is so audible, which is also why it is so pernicious and enduring.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.

Class still matters in Britain today.

Class is real. It can't be faked.

I have no relationship to the French bourgeoisie. I don't like connecting with them.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.

Class is something I know about. I've lived it every day of my life, and it shaped me in my identity.

I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Class is more important than a game.

In England we only make films about the working class or the aristocracy.

On the battlefield, there is no distinction between upper and lower class.