Roland Joffe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Thinking #Giving #Mind
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
-- Roland Joffe

#Men #Trying #Addresses
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

#Philosophy #Knows #Ifs
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
-- Roland Joffe

#Our World #Looks #Influence
Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
-- Roland Joffe

#Bollywood #Film #Music Is
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
-- Roland Joffe

#Thinking #Scientist #Intuitive
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

#Wrestling #Cities #Joy
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
-- Roland Joffe

#India #Monsoons #Plans
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.
-- Roland Joffe

#Stupid #Home #Serious Person
If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
-- Roland Joffe

#People #Depth #Made
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.
-- Roland Joffe

#Trying #Directors #Actors
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
-- Roland Joffe

#Wanted #Audience
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.
-- Roland Joffe

#Fun #Thinking #Feelings
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

#Littles #Sides #States
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

#Stupid #Silly #Stories
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

#Football #Ideas #Popcorn
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 only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.
-- Roland Joffe

#Selfish #Animal #Years
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
-- Roland Joffe

#Tribes #Invited
I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
-- Roland Joffe

#Dvds #Format
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
-- Roland Joffe

#Thinking #Gestation Period #Should Have
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

#Past #Looks #Knows
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!
-- Roland Joffe

#Couple #Men #Elderly
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
-- Roland Joffe

#Prisoner #Feels
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.
-- Roland Joffe

#Jobs #Thinking #Firsts
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
-- Roland Joffe

#Cinema #Audience #Knows

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