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Tilda Swinton Biography

Katherine Matilda Swinton (born 5 November 1960) is a British actress, model, and artist. She is known for her roles in both arthouse films and large-scale Hollywood productions. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Karen Crowder in the 2007 film Michael Clayton. She also won the BAFTA Scotland Award for Best Actress for the 2003 film Young Adam, and has received three Golden Globe Award nominations.

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Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

Archetypes, Flip, Interesting, Littles, See

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.

Audience, Believe, Encouragement, Thinking, Understand

There's a thing I really mind hearing, when someone says: "That's not my kind of film, I don't want to go and see that. . . " I don't believe that, I don't believe that it's possible to write off a whole genre of filmmaking - "oh I don't like subtitled films", or "I don't like black and white films", or I don't like films made before or after, a certain date" - I don't believe that.

Believe, Black And White, Date, Subtitled, Whole, Writing

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

Amazing, Performers, Temperament, Temperamental, Trailer, Trailers

Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.

Artist, Existentialist, Modern, Trocchi, War

Very, 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".

Become, Beings, Cutting, Eye, Like, Sex

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.

Family, Father, Mustache, People

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

Adventure, Call, Dream, Live, Vision

About actors' lives. . . I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.

Actors, Dark, Know, Life, Read, Sorry

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.

Friends, Italian, Lazy People, Speak

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

Art, Firsts, Place, Precisely, Soul

For me, sex is a refraction of the thing about identity. In the sexual contact, which is usually - but not exclusively - between two people, you do retain separate people.

People, Refraction, Sex, Thing, Two, Usually

The Ancient One, as you know, is the master, is the Sorcerer Supreme, and [Doctor] Strange comes to learn how to heal himself and The Ancient One has got the knowledge. And so what you're seeing today is a part of the whole training section when he's learning the moves and digging deep. So it's all about that, it's all about trying to push him to get there.

Ancient, Doctor, Doctors, Heal, Moving, Training

I was just talking to Benedict [Cumberbatch] who's got a little baby and knows his father lives in his phone. We as humans are evolving really fast, so everyday we're hit with that.

Baby, Father, Phone, Phones, Talking

In my house, a hot dog is a dog that's really hot.

Dog, Hot, House

We must hang on to the idea that we can actually change things. That's the sort of environment that Joe finds himself in, in Young Adam.

Adam, Environment, Ideas, Joe, Things, Young

Sexuality is, of course, a great way of having a conversation between people.

Course, People, Sexuality, Way

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

Experience, Fans, Film, Omnivorous, Real, Thinking

This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.

Artist, Artists, Doctor, Doctors, Interpreted, Views

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.

Friends, Like, Long, Nothing, People, Projects

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