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Roland Joffe

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

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

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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."

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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."

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"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."

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"I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid."

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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."

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"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."

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"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

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"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

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"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?"
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"The history of the white man in India really jumped up and bit me in the neck."
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"Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box."
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"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."
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"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
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"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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"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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"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."
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"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."
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