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.
Tilda SwintonIt's wonderful to actually have an opportunity to get real and show how complicated and fascinating sex is.
Tilda SwintonAs a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.
Tilda SwintonI think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.
Tilda SwintonThe last time I did anything like this [special powers] was with the Narnia film with two swords, the same but different.
Tilda SwintonVery, very often in movie sex you see this fiction about unity. A union. That somehow these two thinking beings become one, and there's one action and they're sort of perfectly in sync, and the lighting's perfect, and they've got their eyes closed, and they're gone, you know? And then you cut to someone having a cigarette. And it's all so much Novocain. Meanwhile, those of us us watching it are going "I'm never going to tell anybody, but I never have sex like that".
Tilda Swinton