Quotes from Tilda Swinton

I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.

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

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.

I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.

I think that a real film fan experience is about a kind of omnivorous experience.

As 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.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

We're like the raw food movement in cinema - so determined to give people things that do some good, that they recognize as real.