124 Quotes by Tilda Swinton

If we don’t accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain’t true.

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 am the only living person in the English speaking world who didn’t have the Narnia books as a child.

I always think of the word ‘abandonment’ when I think of the character.

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.

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.

To be honest the work that a producer does is work that I’ve done for most of my working life. It’s work that I started to do, for example, when I worked with Sally Potter on Orlando. We developed it together over five years.

The people I’m working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There’s nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It’s just dreamy.

It’s exotic for me to be given a script that’s already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that’s all.