Latest Tilda Swinton Quotes from Interviews

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• Do you want a list of what my dogs taught me? Patience, perspective, joy, loyalty, the simplicity and presence of their joy. That's a really great daily reminder, bad stuff happens, difficult stuff happens and you take them out onto the beach and you go "OK, now I see". You tell them the current political situation in the world and they go "should we go for a walk?" And you go, right, that's the correct answer.

  Tilda Swinton

  Loyalty, Dog, Beach

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

• Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

  Tilda Swinton

  Mean, Animal, People

  Source: wwd.com

• Working with the editor on the set means that it is possible to keep track, at every moment, of the exact temperature of the trajectory of the scene - and know precisely what is required to continue, or precede, the action already shot. Like building a giant jigsaw puzzle. This is a freeing procedure because one is divested of all the options that might otherwise hamper one's choices. Clarity is possible. And that means one can relax into each shot, knowing the clear boundaries of where it might end or begin. And with relaxation, comes play.

  Tilda Swinton

  Mean, Track, Choices

  Source: wwd.com

• Anybody knows who lives with animals, they teach you more about what it is to be a good human than most people: patience, goodheartedness, enthusiasm, presence, forgiveness, focus, restfulness, honesty.

  Tilda Swinton

  Honesty, Animal, People

  Source: wwd.com

• The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

  Tilda Swinton

  Father, People, Mustache

  Source: www.nerve.com

• I remember when I first started to be photographed, people couldn't understand how it was possible to go around with no eyelashes, no eyebrows. Now it's much more accepted for people not to wear eyelashes or lipstick or whatever they do, but then it was quite freaky. Um, a kind of boiled look.

  Tilda Swinton

  Eyelashes, Eyebrows, People

  Source: www.nerve.com

• When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

  Tilda Swinton

  Feelings, Freak, Walks

  Source: www.nerve.com

• The great news is that that sort of group of people and that sort of sensibility is beginning to become more active again. And I think partly it just has to do with the time. It has to do with the culture of resistance. The necessity is for us to pull together and to speak up and to make work and be visible.

  Tilda Swinton

  Thinking, People, Together

  Source: www.nerve.com

• Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't want - but you had to keep coming up with stuff.

  Tilda Swinton

  Responsibility, Stuff, Want

  Source: www.nerve.com

• One of the things about Derek Jarman was that he was a painter who worked alone when he painted, but I firmly believe that one of the reasons he made films was for the company. He made filmmakers of all of us, that's the truth. I don't mean he necessarily made directors, but he made us filmmakers. Because we lived in a state of mutual responsibility for what we made.

  Tilda Swinton

  Believe, Mean, Responsibility

  Source: www.nerve.com

• Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

  Tilda Swinton

  Void, Truth Is, Filled

  Source: www.nerve.com

• What bothers me is that the cinema - what Fox News calls the "wholesome cinema that our children are supposed to be able to see" - is so violent. I'm not even talking about the content. I'm talking about the way in which it's cut.

  Tilda Swinton

  Children, Cutting, Talking

  Source: www.nerve.com

• I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

  Tilda Swinton

  Cinema, Want, Adults

  Source: www.nerve.com

• We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.

  Tilda Swinton

  Would Be, Texture, Moments

  Source: www.nerve.com

• We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex in the film [Young Adam] - which there clearly had to be because sex is the meat and potatoes of the thing - it had to be varied for the audience, because it's important to keep the audience living in it.

  Tilda Swinton

  Sex, Important, Levels

  Source: www.nerve.com

• We were very clear that this film's [Young Adam] so much about a relationship that's borne out through the sexual contact, and that that's the way they communicate.

  Tilda Swinton

  Way, Film, Adam

  Source: www.nerve.com

• There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

  Tilda Swinton

  Humanity

  Source: www.nerve.com

• I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.

  Tilda Swinton

  War, Twins, Birth

  Source: www.nerve.com

• We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

  Tilda Swinton

  Real, Giving, People

  Source: www.nerve.com

• There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

  Tilda Swinton

  Mistake, Bells, Alarms

  Source: www.nerve.com

• Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

  Tilda Swinton

  Interesting, Littles, Flip

  Source: www.nerve.com

• A large part of my filmmaking self has to do with my love of being in the cinema audience, and my relationships to what I want to see on the screen, what I have seen on the screen and what I don't want to see on the screen again.

  Tilda Swinton

  Self, Want, Cinema

  Source: www.nerve.com

• We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

  Tilda Swinton

  Ideas, Environment, Young

  Source: www.nerve.com

• We're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.

  Tilda Swinton

  Views, Beats, Difficult

  Source: www.nerve.com

• Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

  Tilda Swinton

  War, Artist, Existentialist

  Source: www.nerve.com