Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.
Tilda SwintonThere's an alarm bell that goes off in my head if I can sense that I'm making a mistake.
Tilda SwintonI was always, and I still am to a certain extent, one of those lazy people who spends a lot of time with Italian friends and yet constantly says I don't speak Italian. Things slow down when I start speaking Italian.
Tilda SwintonThere'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