Tilda Swinton Quotes

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

I see my actors as my collaborators.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it.

People think if you're a movie star, you're the boss. But first of all, I'm not a movie star, I'm in a very different place. I'm not looking to do what I want - I am looking for what we can find. It's a creative process.

I will admit, it's so intoxicating working with Steve Carrell. Creatively and professionally.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

That's the most important thing to me - that if I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

Tell me one director who will go on record to say that I don't get along with them? I get along famously with all my directors because I am what I am today because of them.

'The Homesman' is my third collaboration with Tommy Lee Jones as director, and each time, I am aware of how fortunate I am.

To be honest, my partner Natasha is my inspiration. She is who I reference when searching for my role. I don't emulate what she does, but her interpretation of Giselle is so fragile and sensitive and so tender. It constantly inspires me. And I feel like it's the other way around. We have a great rapport together.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.

In every shoot, between the actor and the director there is manipulation. I'm not saying that negatively. It's healthy.

To work with the same director is a great feeling.

If I'm gonna spend however long it takes to make a movie, give up 14 hours a day for however many weeks or months, then it's very important for me to know that I'm working with people who I respect and enjoy and that we're going for something together.

Sometimes when an actor and director work together for the first time, it's not as if there's a suspicion, but there is tentativeness, a certain amount of a right of passage you have to go through in order to get there. When it's already there from the beginning, it's such a plus.

I think when I work with artists, I'm at their service, and I'm at the service of either their vision or a vision that we find together and we share.

I only collaborate with the people I rock with in life, period. I rock with people where I really respect their craft and respect what they're doing. That's what collaboration should start from.

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

In some way, the relationship between a director and an actor is personal.

The people I chose to work with me on this album are there because I have a personal relationship with them.

Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.