Roland Joffe Quotes

If there is reincarnation, I would like to be born as Sonu Niigaam.

I believe in reincarnation, and I believe I've lived quite a few lives.

I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

I believe in reincarnation of the soul.

Reincarnation occurs because we decide that we haven't learned enough lessons.

Obviously I believe in reincarnation and all that kind of stuff - I don't think anyone's going to be surprised to hear that.

I don't believe in reincarnation, and I didn't believe in it when I was a hamster.

Life is an endless cycle for those who believe in reincarnation.

If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

Hesitation before birth. If there is a transmigration of souls then I am not yet on the bottom rung. My life is a hesitation before birth.

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

I think if you believe in past lives, I must have been an extremely deprived being. I must have been mistreated, beaten, and forced into indentured servitude because this life has just been phenomenal.

Do I believe in reincarnation? Well, let's say that I believe in karma. I think you make your own karma.

If I was not born in this lifetime in New York, certainly in a previous life, I was a New Yorker.

Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

Many instances exist of small children who seem to remember and describe their previous life in another body, another place, and with other people. These memories emerge usually shortly after these children begin to talk.

Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them.

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

There is a plethora of topics to explore. I sometimes think I may never live long enough to explore all of the unique story lines I have either in my head or waiting in my computer file.

A part of me feels like I was an animal in my past life that wasn't treated very nicely.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.