A biography for Roland Joffehasn’t been written yet.
“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 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!”
“Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.”
“The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.”
“It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.”
“I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.”