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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."

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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."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Our coach was absolutely out of his head. He must have read Bear Bryant's book. We had 78 players out. The first day 35 quit. Twenty quit the second day. We ended with 17 players. It was depressing."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"There's a picture of the real Coach Gary Gaines in the book and he's sitting in the locker room after a game, and he just looks so much like Billy Bob, that we went to him."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"But I was still hoping to be able to coach and teach."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I started out wanting to coach football."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly."

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Jonathan Safran Foer

"I think that teaching coaches are the norm now."

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Roland Joffe
"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."

History

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

Communication

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

Communication

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Roland Joffe
"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."

Politics

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Roland Joffe
"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?"

History

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Roland Joffe
"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."

Time

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Roland Joffe
"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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Roland Joffe
"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."

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Roland Joffe
"Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie."

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