Quotessence
Home / Authors / Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton

Tilda Swinton Quotes

Actress

Filter quotes by topic

AllFilmPeopleThinkingKnowsKindStrangeDoctorsAncientFeelsIdeasIfsLooksWholeChildrenCinemaImportantWayBelieveConversationFilmmaker

Famous Tilda Swinton Quotes

“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.”

ThinkingGivingFeelsBelieveFilmGivenI BelieveAudienceIndustryTasteEncouragementDon't BelieveFilmmakerFilmmakingFestivalsEmpoweredFilm Festivals
Author:Tilda Swinton
Create image

“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 see that..." I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.”

WantWritingMindBelieveKindMadeWholeFilmCertainBlackWhiteDon't BelieveHearingGenreFilmmakingBlack And White
Author:Tilda Swinton
Create image

“That whole Deep End experience of finding yourself with the dead body: you know you didn't kill it, but you know if you're found with it, you're gonna be done for it, so you have to get rid of it. And that's a really important nub of Young Adam — Joe knows for absolute certain that if someone comes around the corner, that's it. Nobody's ever going to believe what happened. So that has nothing to do with identity or sexuality, but that is a link. I'm just fascinated by it.”

IfsKnowsBelieveImportantEndsDoneWholeBodyYoungCertainFoundHappenedIdentityFindingsAbsolutesCornersSexualityFinding YourselfLinksFascinatedAdamAround The Corner
Author:Tilda Swinton
Create image

“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.”

BelieveMeanMadeStatesReasonFilmResponsibilityCompanyDirectorsPainterFilmmakerMutual
Author:Tilda Swinton
Create image

“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.”

FirstsBelieveArtSoulSelfI BelieveDifferencesInspireComfortDespairArt IsDistanceInjusticeMy SoulGreat ArtAlienationFellowshipReconcile
Author:Tilda Swinton
Create image