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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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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."

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Donna Grant

"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."

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Donna Grant

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Donna Grant

"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."

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Roland Joffe
"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."

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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."

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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."

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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 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!"

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

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

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Roland Joffe
"Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain."

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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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