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Roland Joffe's Profile

Brief about Roland Joffe: By info that we know Roland Joffe was born at 1945-11-17. And also Roland Joffe is English Director.

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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.

Tags: Football, Whole, Wrong

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.

Tags: Best, Education, Life

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.

Tags: Trying, Whole, Work

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.

Tags: Thought, Time, Whole

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.

Tags: Good, Rather, Stand

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

Tags: Ability, Culture, Mind

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

Tags: Hard, Someone, Time

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?

Tags: After, History, Past

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

Tags: Lives, Philosophy, Politics

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

Tags: Confidence, Eventually, Tribe

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

Tags: Getting, Good, Movie

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

Tags: History, Prisoners, Sense

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.

Tags: Job, Once, Tough

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

Tags: Anybody, Respect, Talk

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

Tags: Format

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

Tags: Film, Period, Three

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

Tags: Sometimes, Street, Try

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

Tags: Audience, Wanted

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

Tags: Count, Depth, Movie

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

Tags: According, India, Plan
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