Tilda Swinton Quotes
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Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.
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The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.
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Eleven years is a great length of time to prepare a movie, it would be wonderful to have 11 years of funded preparation.
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We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.
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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.
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I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.
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I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
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About actors' lives... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.
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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.
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I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!
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One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.
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I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
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The work is different in the sense that I haven't had to travel round the world raising money, or work from the genesis of the project. But the collaboration feels clear always, it's sort of my drug, I'm in it for the conversation. The conversation's the most important part of it.
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If I'd been asked to play an Asian man [in Doctor Strange] I would've shown them Benedict Wong.
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I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.
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The only real struggle [in Doctor Strange] was casting spells - learning all these amazing things with fingers, and then remembering what to say at the same time. They would say, 'So you have to put your hands there, not there because the light is going to go [MAKES SOUND] so that kind of masks... but it was all good.
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I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.
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I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
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I made The War Zone when I had just given birth to twins, and my post-partum frame was very much on display there.
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Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
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George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.
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It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.
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There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.
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We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.