Top 30 Quotes by Roland Joffe

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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