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.

- 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

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

- Roland Joffe