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Roland Joffe [1945-0] English

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Director, Film director

Roland Joffé is an English-French film director who is known for the Oscar-winning movies The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television.

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Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.		101
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.		102
If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.		103
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.	Funny, Sad	104
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.		105
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.		106
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.	Food	107
Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.		108
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.		109
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.		110
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.		111
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.		112
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.		113
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.		114
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.		115
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?		116
When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.		117
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.		118
The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.		119
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.		120
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.		121
It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.		122
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.		123
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.		124
I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.		125
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.		126
I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.		201
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.		202
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!		203
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.		204

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