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• The prosthetics were interesting because the artist was so good that they could just put a Hitchcock mask on me, but you don't want to do that. You're an actor playing Hitchcock, so it's about how much of that you're going to do.

  Toby Jones

  Artist, Interesting, Actors

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

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  Keys, Shadow, Fans

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's 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

  Independent, Imagination, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What happens is some of the characters I've played have voices that are so different from my own, that it would be ridiculous if I would dip in and out of that voice in between takes to ask for a coffee, or something. Or to gossip about whatever was going on.

  Toby Jones

  Coffee, Character, Voice

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• When I told people I was going to be doing the movie and the voice of Dobby, they were kind of awestruck, the people who knew about Harry Potter. I felt rather guilty that I didn't really understand the scale of the job I was about to take on. Now, I am well aware of what I'm doing, and actually, it feels a very serious acting responsibility.

  Toby Jones

  Jobs, Responsibility, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

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  Strong, Character, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

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  Drama, Character, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you're training as an actor, a lot of the big work you're learning is to treat fictional characters like real people. You don't have the problem of discovering a backstory with real people, but there's always a mystery which is common to both fictional and factual characters. They are never quite the person you think they are.

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  Real, Character, Thinking

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• There's not a huge pile of scripts at home. It's what happens to be on the table at that moment with your availability. And then you have no control over when these things come out.

  Toby Jones

  Home, Availability, Tables

  "Toby Jones On Choosing Roles, Avoiding Hollywood and the Crisis of Global Politics". Interview with Eric Kohn, www.indiewire.com. August 10, 2012.

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• I went to meet Joe Johnston, the director, and he's charming. I've been very lucky. Most of the directors I've worked with are charming. But Joe's a particularly charming man, and he showed me lots of designs and, rather memorably, welcomed me to the Marvel Universe.

  Toby Jones

  Men, Design, Directors

  "Toby Jones on playing Alfred Hitchcock and improvising with Danny McBride". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I was a fan of Hitchcock, but more importantly than that, he is such an inscrutable man, and a very carefully inscrutable man. He apparently was blank-faced with a calm and controlled presence. I was immediately anxious and thought, 'How am I going to get behind that?'

  Toby Jones

  Men, Fans, Calm

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• I'm very interested in people, so if a character happens to be real, there's that much more to look at.

  Toby Jones

  Real, Character, People

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

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  Running, Children, Thinking

  "Toby Jones: dial H for Hitchcock". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. December 09, 2012.

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• Certainly for my father, there were great times, good times, not-so-good times. He might be shooting a Fellini film for six months, then not working for two months. I'm used to that dynamic.

  Toby Jones

  Father, Two, Six Months

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hitchcock is a big ask. I am playing someone significantly older than me and someone significantly bigger than me. The stuff I find very interesting is why certain physical things have come about. How can he be light on his feet when he is so big? How can his weight vary so much? Where does this rather beautiful voice come from?

  Toby Jones

  Beautiful, Light, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.

  Toby Jones

  Long, Four, Hours

  "Toby Jones' Hitchcock Hang-Ups". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. October 24, 2012.

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• Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.

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  Character, Voice, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if it's harder but when you're playing a real person you want to honor their memory - even if they're a criminal or someone that the public loathed. That can be challenging.

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  Memories, Real, Challenges

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?

  Toby Jones

  Men, Guy, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We're interested by public personas and private personas, otherwise we wouldn't put on with actors rambling on with the same kind of stuff, over and over again, saying variations of the same thing. I'm always amazed by how fascinated people still are by actors because it's the same version of events that actors describe, all the time.

  Toby Jones

  People, Events, Rambling

  "Toby Jones Talks THE GIRL, the Process of Finding Alfred Hitchcock, THE HUNGER GAMES, HARRY POTTER, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 20, 2012.

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• There is this miraculous thing I heard Hugh Grant talking about - the thing about screen acting is that you can read people's thoughts. You are trying to register something inside and usually the eyes in cinema are where you will register that.

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  Eye, Talking, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are things that I would avoid, so I have the choice to say no, when I feel I'm repeating myself too much. But then there could be a reason to do that with a good director. So I think actors have to have a loose philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Thinking, Choices

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One key element to Hitchcock is the drooping jowl. That was crucial because his silhouette is crucial. There is something about his silhouette that became his brand.

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  Keys, Elements, Silhouettes

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• There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.

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  Drinking, Moving, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• They know you're not Alfred Hitchcock, but you need to be enough Alfred Hitchcock for them not to be bothered by it. That's a reassuring thing.

  Toby Jones

  Needs, Reassuring, Enough

  "Toby Jones Talks the ‘Twisted Love Story’ of ‘The Girl’ and Finding Hitchcock Under Four Hours of Prosthetics". Interview with Alison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. October 19, 2012.

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