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Roland Joffe

"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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed."

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Donna Grant

"I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out."

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Donna Grant

"Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."

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Donna Grant

"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it."

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Donna Grant

"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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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
"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."

People

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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
"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
"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."

Education

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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
"Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film."

Music

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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
"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."

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