Quotes by Roland Joffe

About Roland Joffe:

Roland Joffé is an English-born French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated movies The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television. His early television credits included episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today.
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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 ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.

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

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

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, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.

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

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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

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

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

Roland Joffe

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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?

Roland Joffe

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

Roland Joffe

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.

Roland Joffe

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

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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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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 began to fascinate me.

Roland Joffe

Author Bio

  • NameRoland Joffe
  • DescriptionEnglish and French film/television director and producer
  • BornNovember 17, 1945
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; France
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Film Producer