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Film is one small voice in a great cacophony of noise from newspapers, from the television, from social media, so it can have a little dent, you know? It can help to create a climate of opinion.
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We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.
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Churchill the right-winger has been elevated to a status where you can't criticise him. People from the time remember him as an imperialist, a hard-right politician, very instrumental in the oppression of Ireland and the attempt to defeat the general strike.
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I was stage-struck from an early age. I just loved the language. We lived quite near Stratford so I would cycle and watch the plays.
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It's a great privilege to make a film, to have it shown, and for people to see it.
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Film can do lots of things: It can produce alternative ideas, ask questions, just record the reality of what's happening, it can analyze what's happening. Of course, most commercial films are controlled by big corporations who have an interest in not doing those films.
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Because I've been around a long time I get a bit of leeway that other people don't.
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What the Labour movement is about is a broad mass of people actively engaged in a democratic process.
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The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.
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We did a film called 'Kes,' which is about a lad with a talent that nobody can recognise, or that nobody chose to recognise.
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Gordon Brown is and always will be committed to the interests of big business, so there's no way I want to be involved in the Labour Party again.
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Often people write stories about people who are suffering, and they're miserable all the time. That's not the case. You go to the food bank or wherever and there's laughter, there's comedy, there's stupidity, there's silliness and warmth. And that's the reality of people's lives. If you cut out that sense of humor and warmth, you miss the point.
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It seems to me the big weakness in most films is the writing. You can learn directing, but you can't learn writing.
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As a medium, film has great potential, but its use is dominated by big capital.
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We made 'The Wind That Shakes the Barley' about the war of independence and the civil war, which were the pivotal moments of Irish history, really. 'Jimmy's Hall' would seem to be a smaller story 10 years later.
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If we believe in the free market, then that leads to the big corporations taking power, that leads to this competition to lower wages, and that leads to precarious work.
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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.
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I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.
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You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.
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History is for all of us to discuss. All history is our common heritage to discuss and analyze. The founding of the state of Israel, for example, based on ethnic cleansing is there for us all to discuss.
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It's what people have always done. They have always told stories, put on plays. It's characters and narrative and thought and context and resolution so you reflect the way the world is in some way. It comes out of experience. I think it's OK to do that.
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Paul Laverty is a wonderful writer and we've worked together for a quarter of a century.
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All politicians will say they celebrate the NHS, but to a greater or lesser extent, they've all undermined it.
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I made one contribution to a film about the 11th of September: there were 11 directors and everyone had a different take on that. Some I thought were valid and some less so, but there was a substantial point that knitted all the films together - a comment on the bombing of the World Trade Center - so there was something to get your teeth into.
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For the writers I have worked with and for me, the relationship between the personal comedy of daily life and the economic context in which that life happens has always been very significant.
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When I was young, you were told that if you had a skill, you would find a job for life and you could bring up a family on the wage.
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I hate programmes where some TV personality looks you in the eye and tells you what to think - the Andrew Marr version of history. I hate the authorial voice telling you what to think.
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It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.
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I know there are people who can direct sitting down away from it all at a video monitor. But I can't do that.
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Jeremy Corbyn's election was the most hopeful thing since the Labour Party began. He's the first Labour leader who's ever stood on the picket line along with workers.
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Jimmy's Hall' is set in Ireland in the '30s and everything that went under the camera we had to generate.
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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.
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Well, I think by and large, certainly in terms of cinema, American culture dominates our cinema, mainly in the films that are shown in the multiplexes but also in the way that it has a magnetic effect on British films.
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I think people think of auteurs as being a dictator shouting over everyone about his vision. That's not the way I think of auteurs or the way I work.
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The European Union is an institution that is in the interest of big business, not the European people. So it's understandable that some people thought we should leave.
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I think that's one of the things that sport teaches you. You are only as good as the team around you.
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The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.
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A film has got to demand to be made. Otherwise - if it's just, 'Shall we? Why not?' - you shouldn't make it.
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In general I think that in art you only have the responsibility to tell the truth.
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The problem is, if you make a film that has certain implications in the story, and then you don't follow through, it's a cop out really, isn't it?
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If change is to come, it must come from the working class. That's why telling their story is important. That's why knowing our history is important.
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There has been no more principled opposition to racism than Jeremy Corbyn: he was getting arrested for protesting against Apartheid when the rest of them were doing deals and calling Nelson Mandela a terrorist.
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Bath was dusty and a little shabby when we moved here. It did look its age and you felt its history in its streets and buildings and little alleyways. The sense of the past was palpable. There were some bad modern buildings but there was a patina of age.
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Most cities are eclectic. There's a bit of medieval, Georgian, some Victorian and some 20th century. That's fine. Bath is different because it was built within 100 years or less. It has a homogeneity.
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