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Top 30 Roland Joffe Quotes (2024 Update)

Roland Joffe Quote: “Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.”

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

— Roland Joffe

Roland Joffe Quote: “Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what’s right for the movie.”

2. “Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what’s right for the movie.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.”

3. “Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

4. “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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

5. “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

Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Roland Joffe Quote: “I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “If the movie’s well made and it’s about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.”

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

— Roland Joffe

Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

9. “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

Roland Joffe Quote: “Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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!”

11. “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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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Roland Joffe Quote: “I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

14. “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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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

16. “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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Roland Joffe Quote: “I’ve never wanted to do something where I’d berate the audience.”

17. “I’ve never wanted to do something where I’d berate the audience.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.”

20. “Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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?”

21. “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

Roland Joffe Quote: “I like DVDs so much – it’s such a better format than VHS.”

22. “I like DVDs so much – it’s such a better format than VHS.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.”

23. “In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

24. “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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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Roland Joffe Quote: “I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “Even if we don’t know it or aren’t aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.”

27. “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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Roland Joffe Quote: “When you look at our world, the truth is that we’re all under the influence of politics.”

28. “When you look at our world, the truth is that we’re all under the influence of politics.”

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Roland Joffe Quote: “Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.”

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

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Roland Joffe Quote: “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.”

30. “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

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