Ken Loach Quotes

I've lived a life of unplanned freelance employment.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

I've gone through long periods of time when there's no work for me. You wait for the next job to come along, and when it does, there's never a consideration about whether you do or don't do something.

When you are a freelancer, you are always looking for a next job. There is always struggle.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

Film work can be tedious and sort of all over the place, especially when you have a family and you're going off and doing things somewhere else.

I am a freelancer. My services are available to anyone at any time.

You never know why or when the next job is coming. I actually like that. It's kind of exciting. I don't punch in. I don't have a 9 to 5 job. When you do work you're lucky enough to go to interesting places and meet mostly interesting and talented people, so it's really a great job if you can work.

Once I started down the path of co-founding Image Comics, and even co-publisher, it just seems a lot more like a career path that isn't that atypical for someone with a college degree. Whereas, someone who draws comic books as a freelancer and lives from job to job is a more unusual story.

The truth is, working on single camera, show or film, you have no life. You work 60-80 hours a week. You're up before your kid gets up, and you're home when they go to sleep.

When you're filming, you work 19-hour days and you know more about what's going on with your crew and co-workers than you do with your husband. You're away, you miss things. It's taxing. Relationships fail because of it.

If you decide you want to work in the film industry, you just have to bite the bullet and take other jobs until the proper jobs come in.

Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

Shooting this show is pretty intense. You lose your life. But I have no life, so it's perfect!

It's hard work just being on set 14 hours a day.

Sometimes you work all the way through to 5am, then get a few hours and you're back on set again.

I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.

Guy Ritchie, he thinks going to drama school is the worst thing in the world.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

My father started his own business, and before that was a freelance lecturer, and my friends are artists and musicians; they don't have real jobs - none of us have real jobs.

Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

I don't like sitting around sets - I don't like the unpredictability of it.

When I was focusing on theater, I would go on for months without any work and could hardly pay the rent.