Top 43 Joffe Quotes
#1. Rowan Joffe was on top of everything. He knew exactly how he wanted everything to be, right down to the fact when I made those telephone calls, I didn't do it afterwards in a studio. I think that's how he operates. He likes it to be as real and as clear as possible.
Mark Strong
#2. Rowan Joffe is very specific. I mean, he wrote it as well and he has a very orderly writer's mind and the same applies to his directing.
Mark Strong
#3. 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.
Roland Joffe
#4. I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.
Chantal Joffe
#5. Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.
Roland Joffe
#6. I'm a terrible photographer.I'm not being modest. My photos really are crap. But in a way, the more the photo is crap, the better to paint from.
Chantal Joffe
#7. Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
Roland Joffe
#8. 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
#9. I think about women and their thoughts and ideas, and I suppose when I'm painting them I'm getting to be them, in a sense. That is why I plainly paint women.
Chantal Joffe
#10. I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.
Chantal Joffe
#11. I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Roland Joffe
#12. 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
#13. When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.
Roland Joffe
#14. I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
Chantal Joffe
#15. The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck.
Roland Joffe
#16. I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.
Roland Joffe
#17. 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
#18. Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
Roland Joffe
#19. Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
Roland Joffe
#20. 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
#21. There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.
Josef Joffe
#22. Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box.
Roland Joffe
#23. I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
Roland Joffe
#24. If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it.
Roland Joffe
#25. I like the stories. I like the narratives that you get in fashion photography. And I like what the clothes do to the body - the patterns and stripes and all of that.
Chantal Joffe
#26. 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.
Roland Joffe
#27. 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
#28. I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
Roland Joffe
#29. Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.
Roland Joffe
#30. 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
#31. It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time.
Roland Joffe
#32. I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
Roland Joffe
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. 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.
Roland Joffe
#37. 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.
Roland Joffe
#38. I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
Chantal Joffe
#39. In India, one has to plan according to the monsoons.
Roland Joffe
#40. 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
#41. I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS.
Roland Joffe
#42. Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
Roland Joffe
#43. I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.
Chantal Joffe
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