Roland Joffe Quotes

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.

Much Of Indian Science Seems Intuitive And Not Bound By The Rigid Thinking Of Classical Scientists.

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.

In India, One Has To Plan According To The Monsoons.

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.

If The Movie's Well Made And It's About Things That Count, People Will Ultimately See The Depth In It.

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.

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?

Eventually, The Tribe Developed So Much Confidence In Me That They Invited Me To Be Their Chieftain.

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.

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.

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!