Things Count Quotes by Roland Joffe

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger…

— Roland Joffe

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had…

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time…

— Roland Joffe

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,…

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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…

— Roland Joffe

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

— Roland Joffe

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

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?…

— Roland Joffe