14 Roland Joffe Quotes for You to Enjoy

Roland Joffe

English Director

Born: Nov 17, 1945

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Time Me Thought First Dimension Introduce Silly Began Story Then Should Fascinate Whole Element Reincarnation Suggested

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

Work Director Picture Own Bit Somehow Like Concerned His Conducting Trying Orchestra Bigger Bigger Picture Much Whole Actor Thing

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

Food Family Meal Down Indian Sitting Different British

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

Life Education Best Day Me Culture Joy Political My Life Gave City More Wrestling Marxist Had Between Became Match Becoming Making Gradually Who Englishman

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

Sad Funny Home You Stupid Say Kind More Know How Very Person Clowns Public Really Serious They Say

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

Man Sometimes Try Address He Counts Audiences Forgets Street

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

Time Job Thought Tough First Think Easy About Layers Missed Around First Time Reviewing Get Movie Really Film Need

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

Three Think Period Least Years Should Film Two

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

Better Like Than Format Much

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

Respect Cinema Would Like Know Talk Audiences Just Anybody Them

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

History Own Sense Our Feel Prisoners Were Began

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

Good About Directing Performance Getting Just Movie Right

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

Me Confidence Tribe Developed Invited Much Eventually

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

Politics Our Philosophy Know Make Up Really Even Aware Lives

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