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…

— Roland Joffe

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

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— Roland Joffe

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

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

— Roland Joffe

I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through…

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides…

— Roland Joffe

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are…

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe

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

— Roland Joffe