43 Quotes by Roland Joffe

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.

Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.

If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.

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.

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.

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

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?

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.