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I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.
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I was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
Tilda Swinton
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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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I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can always tell what temperature a room is in a Hitchcock film because the people feel alive, they don't feel like they're just being filmed on a stage.
Tilda Swinton -
What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact.
Tilda Swinton -
I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.
Tilda Swinton -
Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.
Tilda Swinton -
We [ with Ewan McGregor] decided exactly what we would do at every moment, what the texture would be.
Tilda Swinton
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It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.
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I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
Tilda Swinton -
I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.
Tilda Swinton -
I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.
Tilda Swinton -
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 -
Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.
Tilda Swinton
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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.
Tilda Swinton -
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
Tilda Swinton -
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 -
I am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn't have the Narnia books as a child.
Tilda Swinton -
There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.
Tilda Swinton -
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
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What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.
Tilda Swinton -
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
Tilda Swinton -
Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
Tilda Swinton -
I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.
Tilda Swinton