Roland Joffe Quotes

Roland Joffe — English Director born on November 17, 1945,

Roland Joffé is an English-born French film director who is known for his Oscar nominated 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... (wikipedia)

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

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.

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

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.

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 Quotes

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