How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?
Tilda SwintonWe're living in a new Beat time, in my view. And it's very difficult for us to hang on.
Tilda SwintonI mean, even in terms of the Marvel universe, this [Ancient One character] is going on a side street into a major piazza that Marvel hasn't even been to before, because it's all about creation and not so much about destruction and forestalling destruction, it's about your mind.
Tilda SwintonI have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.
Tilda SwintonIn The Deep End, you have a woman who looks like a J. Crew mother who can manage it all. Then we begin to realize what's going on inside. Every time I see one of those women stuck at a stoplight with the children in the back of her car, I sort of think, "What have you just done? What's going on in your life?".
Tilda Swinton