Roland Joffe Quotes

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe

Mind, Culture, Ability

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
Roland Joffe

Time, Someone, Hard

Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Roland Joffe

History, Past, After

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
Roland Joffe

Politics, Philosophy, Lives

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
Roland Joffe

Confidence, Eventually, Tribe

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Roland Joffe

Good, Getting, Movie

I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Roland Joffe

History, Sense, Prisoners

I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!
Roland Joffe

Men, Forget, Why

I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once.
Roland Joffe

Job, Tough, Once

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Roland Joffe

Respect, Talk, Anybody

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
Roland Joffe

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.
Roland Joffe

Good, History, Wanted

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
Roland Joffe

Two, Film, Three

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
Roland Joffe

Time, Fun, Feeling

I think the job of movie reviewing can be really tough. If a film has layers that need to be thought about, it's easy to get missed the first time around.
Roland Joffe

Time, Job, Thought

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
Roland Joffe

Try, Sometimes, Street

I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? I'm really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public.
Roland Joffe

Funny, Home, Sad

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
Roland Joffe

Wanted, Audience

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
Roland Joffe

Made, Movie, Count

If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
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Nothing, Football, Wrong

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
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Plan, India, According

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.
Roland Joffe

Life, Education, Best

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
Roland Joffe

Science, Thinking, Seems

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
Roland Joffe

Music, Film, Full

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
Roland Joffe

Food, Family, Down

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Nationality: English

Born: November 17, 1945

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