Tilda Swinton Quotes, Thoughts and images

It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.

How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?

I'm really interested in the idea of long, long life and transformation and immortality.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

Even beyond sexuality, I'm generally interested in identity.

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

It's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.

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.

I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.

It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

There's nothing I'm particularly keen to hide about my humanity.

I have no problems with the NC-17 rating. I want more NC-17 films. More adult cinema!

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.

There's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.

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

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.

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.

When I'm in northern Italy, I walk about feeling slightly less of a freak.

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

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.

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.