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
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family. – 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
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. – Andrew Weil