Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm. Tilda Swinton More Quotes by Tilda Swinton More Quotes From Tilda Swinton I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that. Tilda Swinton phones baby father For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people. Tilda Swinton two sex people I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema! Tilda Swinton cinema adults want The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache. Tilda Swinton mustache father people Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people. Tilda Swinton sexuality people way 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 emotional children ideas Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside. Tilda Swinton flip littles interesting I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark. Tilda Swinton dark character children 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 revenge children people I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it. Tilda Swinton strange conversation I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity. Tilda Swinton stupidity kindness people Very, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that". Tilda Swinton cutting eye sex 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. Tilda Swinton actors sorry dark 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. Tilda Swinton black-and-white writing believe We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real. Tilda Swinton real giving people 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 survival chance soldier I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud a while ago. He is, as you probably know, an extremely erudite thinker in terms of religious philosophy and just thinking about a modern take on something really, really ancient, about how to imagine living beyond any physical bounds, which we're on the verge of now. Tilda Swinton religious philosophy thinking There are many graphic artists who have interpreted The Ancient One as a Tibetan Buddhist Lama, we're kind of shifting that a bit. We're trying not to be fixed, we're trying not to be fixed to any one thing, any one gender, any one spiritual discipline, and any one race even; we're just trying to wing it beyond that. So it's a new gesture really, just another interpretation. Tilda Swinton buddhist artist spiritual 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. Tilda Swinton brother talking years We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam. Tilda Swinton environment young ideas
