Ken Loach Quotes

I don't like to be feared, and I can't work in conflict, I'm very bad with conflict. I try to avoid it, it paralyzes me.

In a confrontational situation, you'll get their gut. And I want their gut! And that's why people watch this show!

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child's education. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.

To be a great leader, one unfortunately needs a war.

I don't like upsetting people.

I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever.

I was never very mature in my relationships with women. First sign of conflict, I was gone.

I don't have problems with nobody, period.

Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people.

Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

Any kind of conflict draws me to a role.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.

I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.

If we aren't going to be afraid of conflict, we have to see it as thinking.

We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.

Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.