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In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
India
Monsoons
Plans
According
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I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Dvds
Format
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It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
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Blame
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I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
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Audience
Wanted
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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Feels
Prisoner
Began
Prisoners
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I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
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Gestation Period
Should Have
Thinking
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The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
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Men
India
White Man
History Man Me
Neck
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Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
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Directing
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When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Influence
Looks
Our World
Truth Is
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I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Audience
Cinema
Knows
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Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
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Bollywood
Film
Music Is
Integral
Integral Part
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Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
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Indian
Intuitive
Scientist
Thinking
Classical
Rigid
Scientists
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Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
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Invited
Tribes
Developed
Eventually
Tribe
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If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
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Depth
Made
People
People Will See
Count
Ultimately
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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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Ifs
Knows
Philosophy
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Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
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Food
British
Indian
Meals
Sitting
Sitting Down
Meal
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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.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Jobs
Depth
Reviewers
Tough
Tough Job
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I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Men
Addresses
Trying
Counts
Forgets
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Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Ability
Giving
Including
Indian
Indian Culture
Mind
Scientist
Thinking
Box
Certainly
Gives
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Conventionally, one looks at history as something of the past. But after Einstein, who knows what is in the past and what is in the present?
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Knows
Looks
Past
Einstein
In The Past
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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 / Film Director
Bottom
Coaches
Good Coaches
Land
Standing
Watches
Prepare
Ski
Slope
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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.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Jobs
Firsts
Layers
Thinking
Missed
Reviewing
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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 / Film Director
Actors
Bigger
Bigger Picture
Concerned
Directors
Orchestra
Trying
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They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that was silly. But then, this whole time dimension began to fascinate me.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Reincarnation
Silly
Stories
Stupid
Began
Dimension
Element
Fascinate
Introduce
Suggested
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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 / Film Director
Sad
Home
Serious
Serious Person
Stupid
Clowns
They Say
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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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Littles
Sides
States
Result
Slice
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I think that will be a lot of fun for audiences to get the same stream of consciousness that was going through my head at the time. It was very exciting to suddenly recall what I was feeling at the time.
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Consciousness
Feelings
Fun
Thinking
Recall
Stream
Suddenly
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If you spend a whole afternoon just eating popcorn and watching football, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. But if that's all you do, you get swept along with the tide, without any idea of where you're going.
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Absolutely Nothing
Afternoon
Eating
Football
Ideas
Popcorn
Swept
Tide
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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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Becoming
Cities
Joy
Wrestling
Life Education Best
Englishman
Gradually
Match
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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!
Roland Joffe / Film Director
Men
Conversation
Couple
Elderly
Men Always Me
Replied
Tribe
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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.
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Animal
Selfish
Years
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