I studied Hitchcock a little bit at University and knew the famous story about the Birds – that hed tortured Tippi for a day using real birds. I had no idea that it was a five-day onslaught and that it was the tip of an iceberg that carried on through to another film. – Toby Jones
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. – Toby Jones
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a directors imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground. – Toby Jones
If you ever have the good fortune to meet Tippi Hedren, shes an amazing woman. You cant quite believe she is the age she is. – Toby Jones
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – its what my children call my dead author wall. I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. – Debbie Macomber