Roland Joffe Quotes
I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I think a woman looks best in a sari.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.
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Why not celebrate those who want to marry and bring up a family?
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I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.
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I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.
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A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.
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When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.
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As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.
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I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.
