“The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river ...” — Ken Loach Quote

The old Craven Cottage stadium at Fulham, before they built the river stand; that was a great place to watch football. When the football wasn't very good, people used to turn around and watch the boats on the river.

The job of the director is to make certain that the film has one voice and a sense of a single vision, even though it's produced by a large number of people making contributions - to turn all those contributions from individual voices into one coherent one.

I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

I've burnt my boats, and there they are - smouldering in public view.

Stuff doesn't matter - boats, cars, fancy things don't matter. What matters, what will matter to me, is the love of the people around me, and did I take a chance? Did I seize an opportunity to do something for people with the talents that I was lucky enough to be given? Did I make a difference in the lives of people who needed me?

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the corner.