Top 30 Quotes by Roland Joffe

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

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

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.

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.

The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.

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?

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

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

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.