43 Quotes by Roland Joffe

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.

I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.

Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

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!

I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.

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.