English - Director | November 17, 1945 -
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
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I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.
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Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.
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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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Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
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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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