“I try to avoid mirrors.” — Ken Loach Quote

I try to avoid mirrors.

I think it's time British filmmakers stopped allowing themselves to be colonized so ruthlessly by U.S. ideas and stopped looking so slavishly to the U.S. market. It demeans filmmaking when they do that.

If you're a politician, you can see there might be times when, to secure the greater good, you have to take a backwards step. That is a matter of tactics.

Ordinary people can be very articulate and very eloquent.

As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

There's no smoke and mirrors here.

You know those wobbly mirrors at the fair? When I look in them, I look normal.

I spend so much time in front of mirrors as part of my job that I try to avoid them outside work.

When I was modelling, I spent half my life staring at thousands of perfect reflections. It got to a stage where I was losing all sense of reality - so after I quit modelling, I took all the mirrors out of my house.