Roland Joffe Quotes

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Roland Joffe

Profession : Director

Birth : November 17, 1945

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.

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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.

Roland Joffe

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!

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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

Roland Joffe

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

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?

Roland Joffe