Toby Jones Quotes

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

I feel I have a political duty to reach out to the general public. I want to make films that the people want to see. So if the people want to see Johnny Depp or Tom Cruise, then it is really my job to incorporate them into my films.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.

For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.

I don't think I auditioned for 'Ghostbusters II'.

I auditioned equally for film and theater. The difference is that theater has seasons, while film, it's always happening.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

I'd love to work with Sean Penn or Kevin Spacey.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

I think filmmakers are always interested in getting the best actor that they can find, the person who's the most right for it.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

Being on set is really hard because there's craft service.

To get a movie star, you have to give them two hours of screen time.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.

Films are done in about three months, and television takes up about ten months out of the year working on the same project.

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to contribute to, people approach me and say, 'Hey, would you like to do this?' I laugh out loud and say, 'Yes, that'd be funny.' Or, I'm very moved by what I read and say, 'Yes. How can I help you?'

I love being on a movie set.

I was the first studio executive to meet with Sean Penn after 'Taps' in 1981. I was anxious to develop things with him when nobody knew who he was.

My uncle is an actor, my dad is a producer, so they asked me if I was interested, and I was like, 'How can someone act in front of so many people with lights and emote.'

I worked with Devin Kelley on 'Resurrection,' and Mekhi Phifer has been a long time buddy.

Films take too long. There's too much BS, too much nonsense. If I want to do a play, I just call the theater, whether it's here, or in Paris or Mexico or Spain or London or whatever, and say, "I want to do this, are you interested?" They'll answer the next day. With a movie, it's all, "Oh, I see this film as blah blah blah." They don't know what you're talking about, they don't care.