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Roland Joffe

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Roland Joffé is an English film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for directing the critically-acclaimed films The Killing Fields (1984) and The Mission (1986), both of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the latter winning the Palme d'Or at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

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Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists.
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 like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know.
Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
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.
Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.
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 mor…

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