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My father worked in a factory and as a child it felt very secure. It felt very secure because everybody had work, the schools were free, so there was a security of knowing that the war had finished and families would come together again.
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How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other.
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Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.
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Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.
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If you think back to the great French directors it's difficult to think of British film-makers who are comparable.
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It would be exciting to take part in what we now call the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, but with modern dentistry.
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There's no great desire to own lots of stuff - and I don't. You can only live in one house and drive one car.
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In the 1980s, I had a lot of films, documentaries for television, which were about why the trade unions had failed to organize resistance to Margaret Thatcher's plans. And they were banned. I had to fight for those films.
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I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.
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The E.U. is an economically right-wing organization that prioritizes the interests of big corporations.
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I think you find amongst ordinary people there are a lot of people that are really talented.
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There's so much control, so many executive producers, so many people looking over their shoulder, so many people trying to second-guess the boss. The space for writers and directors and actors to be creative is zilch.
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After 'The Gamekeeper' I made one other film called 'Looks and Smiles,' but making British films was very difficult. There wasn't a tradition of British cinema.
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There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way.
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The Labour election of 1945 was a tremendous victory for democratic ownership of the economy.
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If you have a society where a large section believe they are not part of the political discourse, that is a situation for trouble.
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It's time to put back on the agenda the importance of public ownership and public good, the value of working together collaboratively, not in competition.
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People talk about Thatcherism all the time. I felt it was important to record the memories of those almost written out of history who upheld the spirit of '45.
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The thing is, it's much easier to be a rightwing populist than a leftwing one, because the left always have to explain why things are the way they are. The right can just blame the foreigners.
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I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.
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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.
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The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.
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What strikes me - we're apparently at the mercy of an economic system that will never work and the big question is, how do we change it, not how do we put up with it.
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If all political parties are committed to the role of the free market, the politicians act as, I don't know, as traffic policemen; they stand outside the ring and let the real decisions be slugged out by entrepreneurs. That doesn't seem to me a proper democracy.
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The worst thing about being a freelance film director is that you're scrambling around Soho with a briefcase, looking for somewhere to make phone calls. That was my position for 10 years.
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Every four or five films we've made a film that has gone on TV first. It's quite nice to tap into the TV audience, but it is nice to see it on the big screen too.
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Those in power always try to distort reality, to suit their needs and keep things safe.
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Preparation is really important for actors; they need to know who they are, where they're from, and the experiences up to the point that we make the film.
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There's a heresy which is perpetuated by film school that to be a great director you have to write your own stuff.
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Iain Duncan Smith and his regime, they wanted to make the poor suffer and then humiliated them by telling them that their poverty was their own fault and, to demonstrate that, if you're not up to mark then you're sanctioned and the money stops.
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My mum was a peacemaker, and in personal things I tend to do that, because I can't deal with personal conflict. I find that horrible.
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