Roland Joffe Quotes

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?

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

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

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

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

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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!

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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