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.
india monsoons plans
In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
dvds format
I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
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.
land watches skis
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.
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.