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
I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. – Toby Jones
I heard about the project over a year before we began. My American agent said, Oh, you might want to read In Cold Blood because theyre talking about you for Capote, but the scripts with Johnny Depp and Sean Penn at the moment. So, these things take their time to dribble down the food chain. – Toby Jones
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. – Henry James
Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs. – Martin Heidegger