Tilda Swinton Quotes
Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around black people; they will really tell how they feel about white people regardless of the fact that I'm also white and have white relatives. It's very interesting and can be really hard.
-
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
-
Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.
-
Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.
-
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
-
I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
-
My childhood and adolescence were filled with visiting scientists from both India and abroad, many of whom would stay with us. A life of science struck me as being both interesting and particularly international in its character.
-
I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
-
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
-
Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
-
My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
-
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
-
Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
-
Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
-
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
-
Sometimes there are customers who get in difficulty because of situations that are out of their control. These are customers with genuine needs, and the role of the bank is to accommodate these customers, and there is a real need to reschedule the loans of these customers.
-
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.
-
I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.
-
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
-
My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn't expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing - which is interesting but uncomfortable.
-
I don't like the road. I love being on the track. I like being indoors and the fact I'm not battling past 200 other riders.
-
The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.
-
Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.
-
Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
