Tilda Swinton
Tilda Swinton
Katherine Matilda "Tilda" Swinton of Kimmerghameis a British actress, performance artist, model, and fashion muse, known for both arthouse, independent and mainstream films. She began her career in films directed by Derek Jarman, starting with Caravaggio in 1985. In 1991, Swinton won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for her performance as Isabella of France in Edward II. She next starred in Sally Potter's Orlando in 1992 and was nominated for the European Film Award...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 November 1960
CityLondon, England
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.
I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.
Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.
When I say that it's taken us [with Luca Guadagnino ] 11 years to make this film, what I mean is that it was 11 years ago that we started to talk about a kind of cinema that we wanted to make together.
I would say, and this sounds like a rather immodest thing to say, but the truth is it's probably the most amazing thing of all, it's pretty much exactly what I thought we were going to make, what I hoped we'd make.
The whole thing of working in collaboration with filmmakers is the thing that I love the most, and possibly the thing I do the best.
I 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.
I think that film festivals, we're very often given to understand, are about filmmakers and about films and about the industry of filmmaking. I don't believe that they are, I believe that film festivals are about film audiences, and about giving an audience the encouragement to feel really empowered and to stretch the elastic of their taste.
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.