Roland Joffe Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”