Roland Joffe
Roland Joffe
Roland Jofféis an English-born French film director who is known for the Oscar winning 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 November 1945
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It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
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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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If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
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I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
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I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
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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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Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.