Words matter. These are the best Roland Joffe Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
It’s hard to blame someone because they simply don’t have time.
I like DVDs so much – it’s such a better format than VHS.
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
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!
If the movie’s well made and it’s about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
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. It’s like conducting an orchestra.
When you look at our world, the truth is that we’re all under the influence of politics.
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
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.
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.
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what’s right for the movie.
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’ve never wanted to do something where I’d berate the audience.
