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. – Roland Joffe
Im not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are really sad at home? Im really kind of stupid at home and more serious in public. – Roland Joffe
I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know. – Roland Joffe
When you look at our world, the truth is that were all under the influence of politics. – Roland Joffe
The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. – William Least Heat-Moon