Roland Joffe Quotes

“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.”

“I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history.”

“Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.”

“There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.”

“When one door shuts... sometimes it's best to leave it shut, and move on...”

“True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have.”

“It's love for my profession that keep me coming back, not the money. I'd work as hard to make $50.00 as I would $5,000.00. I never scoff at an opportunity to earn a living, regardless of the size of the carrot at the end of the stick.”

“It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.”

“It was my family that wanted me to be a teacher. That was safe, you see. To be a painter was terrible.”

“To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.- Jósef Piłsudski”