- Ken Loach: What is it to be human and part of the world? You can't just walk away from what's happening, much as we would like to. And in the end there is no home but the struggle.
- Derek Malcolm: He is one of those very few directors who simply holds fast to his principles, right or wrong. And that's that as far as he's concerned. You wont change him so you might as well celebrate what he is.