Roland Joffe Quotes
I've never wanted to do something where I'd berate the audience.
Joffé, Roland. Interview by Andy Patrizio. IGN, IGN Entertainment, 21 May 2003.
La Guardia was a very short man and he had gone up to the much larger “poll watcher” and ripped his official button off his coat. The Tammany Hall political machine would appoint thugs as poll watchers to intimidate the voters. If the poll watcher was an "official" voters thought that they might have access to the ballot information and know whether or not they voted for the machine candidates. Their presense was often sufficient intimidation to assure party line voting by most people.
Fischer was in the midst of a parliamentary debate and the President had ruled against him on a procedural matter.
Jefferson actually created or utilized in a political context over 140 different English words. Most are rarely used, like “monocrat”, but this has become a common term of derision which was his intent.
Roland Joffé is a British director and producer of film and television, known for the Academy Award-winning films The Killing Fields and The Mission. He began his career in television, his early credits including episodes of Coronation Street and an adaptation of The Stars Look Down for Granada. He gained a reputation for hard-hitting political stories with the series Bill Brand and factual dramas for Play for Today.
