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Roland Joffe Biography

Roland Joffé (born 17 November 1945) 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. 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.

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

Cinema, Audience, Knows, Know, Audiences

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

Depth, Made, People, See, Things

In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.

According, India, Monsoons, Plan, Plans

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.

Trying, Directors, Actors, Like, Conducting, Picture

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.

Football, Ideas, Popcorn, Spend, Whole

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.

Cities, Culture, Gave, Joy, Political, Wrestling

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

Bound, Intuitive, Science, Scientist, Thinking

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

Our World, Looks, Influence, Politics, Under

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!

Couple, Men, Elderly, Finished, White, Forget

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?

Einstein, History, Knows, Looks, Past

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

Family, Food, Indian, Meal, Meals, Sitting Down

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

Film, Gestation Period, Should Have, Think, Thinking, Years

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

Tribes, Invited, Tribe, Developed, Chieftain

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Bollywood, Film, Music Is, Music, Part

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.

Clowns, Home, Know, Person, Serious Person, Stupid

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.

Depth, Jobs, Movie, Say, Tough

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

Thinking, Giving, Mind, Gives, Indian, Culture

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

Audience, Berate, Wanted

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

Prisoner, Feels, Prisoners, History, Sense

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.

Easy, Jobs, Missed, Needs, Thinking, Time

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