Ken Loach Quotes

As a filmmaker, I'm very collaborative. I don't pretend to know everything that is needed to make a movie. What I like to do is get together with a group of people, starting with developing the story and bounce around ideas.

It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.

This is such a cliche, but I feel like filmmaking is a collaborative experience.

I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making.

Well, first of all, making films is a collaborative process. You need people. You need people you trust and love and who are your friends. People you can work with.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

Movie making is really, it's a director's medium, it's not even so much an actor's medium.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.

Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.

I enjoy setting the scene and coming up with interesting frames. 'True Detective' was a very hands-on set.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Actors' performances do not stand alone in any film, live action or whatever.

I think acting is only one part of the piece of the movie. I'ts an important piece, but I'd like to be involved in all the other aspects of making movies.

When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

The reason why I wanted to direct is because there are personal stories that I want to tell, but also because I love every part of movie making - from the wardrobe to the set decoration to cinematography.

The combo of a great story and good director works for me.

I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.

Having learnt my basics in theatre, I always feel film is a collaborative effort. If you do your part well and help the person in front of you in realising his or her potential, the film invariably comes out good.

Writing, directing... anything behind the camera is what I want to do.

I'm the kind of person who likes to create the environment and mindset - not because I do it deliberately, but because that's how I like to live - where, from catering to makeup to hair to wardrobe, electricians, camera department lighting, sound, you know, it's our movie; we're together, and we have that camaraderie and that closeness.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.