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
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.
Don't you think... the festival has, I don't know, gone a little funny this year?
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.
This film is all about questions and gracefully not about answers. This film steers away from that.
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.
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.'
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.
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 felt clearly that the atmosphere of the film is about loneliness, and existentialist loneliness - in all the characters, including my own.
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.
What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film.
Nic's Charlie is something very particular. You can't really put them together. It's a phantasm.
I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.
I knew Spike Jonze would do something really interesting with it.