Film Quotes by Tilda Swinton

I'll tell you one thing, and this is banal to say because it just makes it sound like it's all planned, and…

— Tilda Swinton

What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical…

— Tilda Swinton

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation…

— Tilda Swinton

One of the things about Derek Jarman was that he was a painter who worked alone when he painted, but I firmly…

— Tilda Swinton

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

— Tilda Swinton

When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that…

— Tilda Swinton

I would say that I think the film [I am love] is absolutely about nature, it recommends human nature. You don't need…

— Tilda Swinton

Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on…

— Tilda Swinton

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

— Tilda Swinton

I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer…

— Tilda Swinton

We also knew [ me and Ewan McGregor] that, on a practical level, if there was going to be that much sex…

— Tilda Swinton

I think that both Luca [ Guadagnino]and I have a kind of resistance to the idea of a film holding a moral…

— Tilda Swinton

This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted…

— Tilda Swinton

I've only ever gone into studio films with people I really like.

— Tilda Swinton

This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable…

— Tilda Swinton

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to…

— Tilda Swinton

The last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.

— Tilda Swinton

I think of great masters, like [Alfred] Hitchcock, for example, who works absolutely within this sensational realm. You feel like you can…

— Tilda Swinton

There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and…

— Tilda Swinton

I think that's true of all cinema, that's why cinema is the great humanistic art form. Whatever the film is, it doesn't…

— Tilda Swinton

This film [Doctor Strange] kind of takes that everyday boring reality and really bursts it wide. So we talked a lot about…

— 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…

— Tilda Swinton

Derek Jarman shared the responsibility for making the film. He didn't necessarily know what he wanted - he knew what he didn't…

— Tilda Swinton

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

— Tilda Swinton

I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of…

— Tilda Swinton