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
hard time
It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
bollywood film music-is
Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
wanted audience
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
india monsoons plans
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
wrestling cities joy
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.
dvds format
I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
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.
food different sitting
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
tribes invited
Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
selfish animal years
We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if only we had strength to make them. In the politics of 400 years ago, we find the same questions we battle with today.
couple men white
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!
prisoner feels
I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
performances
Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
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.