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.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?

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

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

I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.

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

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.

I’m from the same planet as David Bowie.

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