124 Quotes by Tilda Swinton

She's not a 'normal' mom, but who knows what that is anymore? ... But she learns I think the most important lesson of parenting. You have to tell your kids, 'I'm watching you.'

I felt clearly that the atmosphere of the film is about loneliness, and existentialist loneliness - in all the characters, including my own.

I was one of the very few people brought up on these islands who hadn't been given the books along with my mother's milk. So I came to it with a beginner's mind. I still haven't read them all, but I thought it was a good read, and I thought it would make a good film. So I was very happy to do it. When I met with Andrew Adamson I just thought he was the right person for the job.

Well, it's kind of what I do, to be honest with you,

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Don't you think... the festival has, I don't know, gone a little funny this year?

There's something radical about a coming-of-age story that's about everyone trying to come of age at the same time, ... It's not so much about growing up as growing on. There's something compassionate about parents not knowing what they're doing.

So we had this moment with the fly, and we all thought: 'Well, you can't hope to direct a fly. If it walks around a bit, that will be enough.'

And the idea of going through the back of a wardrobe into this parentless land where you're the only people who can prevail, I found really moving.