Alan Cooke Quotations

If we'd made it in the conventional way, we would have lost a lot of the feeling that came from things happening in the moment.

From the beginning there was an element of fate about the project.

It is a niche opportunity for National Savings, it won't have a big impact on us.

We wanted to make something that spoke from the heart to the heart.

We know it's going to be a difficult challenge, we're under no illusion.

The problem before was that the chapter was in over its head with this building,

It's an individual taking a journey, that's the perspective. It happened here, but it could happen anywhere. The idea of leaving home is universal. It's about the idea of finding home and what is home.

I still believe there's someone out there for our film.

In our discussions, part of the plan is to put into writing a memorandum of understanding that the money will be put into an account and the memorial will be built.

In the 13 years I served, we never had a problem. But I feel we are going downhill.