Tilda Swinton Quotes (19 Quotes)

I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.

So we had this moment with the fly, and we all thought 'Well, you can't hope to direct a fly. If it walks around a bit, that will be enough.'

Faith is in the eye of the beholder.

She's not a 'normal' mom, but who knows what that is anymore ... But she learns I think the most important lesson of parenting. You have to tell your kids, 'I'm watching you.'

I was one of the very few people brought up on these islands who hadn't been given the books along with my mother's milk. So I came to it with a beginner's mind. I still haven't read them all, but I thought it was a good read, and I thought it would make a good film. So I was very happy to do it. When I met with Andrew Adamson I just thought he was the right person for the job.

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.

It may be unfair of me but I do feel I know it.

Well, it's kind of what I do, to be honest with you,

There's something radical about a coming-of-age story that's about everyone trying to come of age at the same time, ... It's not so much about growing up as growing on. There's something compassionate about parents not knowing what they're doing.

She's not a talker, or an intellectual, and she's a woman at a certain stage of her life who's already made a certain amount of choices.

Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.

And the idea of going through the back of a wardrobe into this parentless land where you're the only people who can prevail, I found really moving.

I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.

This film is about the fact that it's important for people, particularly families, to communicate with each other. But we're playing people who find it hard to communicate. You can't wrap the plot up into a tiny little sentence. So it was clear to me it was going to take some time to get the film made.

It's pretty much the best original screenplay I've ever read, for a start. Then there's the team - they're a fantastic group of people.

I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.

It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.

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.

I felt clearly that the atmosphere of the film is about loneliness, and existentialist loneliness - in all the characters, including my own.