Author: Roland Joffe

Quotes

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.

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.

- Roland Joffe

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

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

- Roland Joffe

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

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

- Roland Joffe

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

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

- Roland Joffe

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.

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.

- Roland Joffe

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

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

- Roland Joffe

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.

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.

- Roland Joffe

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

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

- Roland Joffe

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

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

- Roland Joffe

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