Roland Joffe
Roland Joffe
Roland Jofféis an English-born 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth17 November 1945
india monsoons plans
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
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The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
philosophy ifs knows
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
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When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
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I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
trying actors 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.
jobs thinking needs
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.
prisoner feels
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
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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.
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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!
thinking scientist seems
Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
performances
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
littles sides states
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.
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.