Taylor Hackford Quotes

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.

While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

I have a visceral response to a memory of working-class life.

‘The laboring poor’ is a detestable, canting phrase.

Workers, the most absolutely necessary part of the whole social structure, without whose services none can either eat, or clothe, or shelter himself, are just the ones who get the least to eat, to wear, and to be housed withal — to say nothing of their share of the other social benefits which the rest of us are supposed to furnish, such as education and artistic gratification.

You can't co-opt labor issues if you are in the working class.

I came from a working-class family. My dad was in a union. I never forgot what it was like to be a private.

Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.

I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike. I know that because I don't come from a wealthy background.

I feel sympathy for the working class lad. I've always championed about ticket prices and try to equate that to people's salaries.

You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

More people work at Walmart than anywhere else in the United States, but you wouldn't know that from our literature. I'm trying to get at the reality of this country by portraying the lives of many of my friends who I left behind in Pittsburgh.

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

The working-class aspirations are worse now than when I was a kid - and it was pretty bad when I was a kid. Reality TV means they are being told they are no longer a working class, they're an underclass. Young lassies want to be Jordan or Jade, but very few aspire to be the next Germaine Greer.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.