As a director, your job can range from having to lean on someone to get a performance out of them, to someone being so built for the part that all yo…

- Shane Meadows

Every kid comes to a point in his life, where you listen to your Dad, but then you go into the street and you start listening to the views of other p…

- Shane Meadows

If you look back on the period, the 1980s has never been seen as cool. You think of the music, and it always has a kitsch quality to it because every…

- Shane Meadows

I'm obviously first and foremost a British filmmaker on a global scale, but when it comes to narrowing it down, I really feel like my voice is in the…

- Shane Meadows

The violence at the end is about personal torture.

- Shane Meadows

You have to make a film and make it interesting, so you can't have a shot of you cleaning your teeth just because you did that. It's boring!

- Shane Meadows

In the Eighties, the landscape was changing. No one knew if they had a future. It's not like now. There was no satellite. Kids were still out on the …

- Shane Meadows

In the Sixties, it was mods and rockers, and hippies and casuals, whereas in the early Eighties, there was Goths, punks, mods, skinheads, New Romanti…

- Shane Meadows

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

- Shane Meadows