Quote by Toby Jones
They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a di

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

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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

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I teach for the Book Trust, which promotes reading and writing with children. – Toby Jones

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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

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. – H. L. Mencken

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Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. – Tim Berners Lee

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Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination. – Lionel Stander

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Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. – James Baldwin

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