Roland Joffe Quotes

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• Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
• They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension…
• 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…
• We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if…
• 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…
• Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
• 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.
• I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
• I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
• 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…
• I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
• I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
• If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
• 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…
• In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
• Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
• Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
• 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…
• 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 picture.…
• The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

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