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“I think one man’s comfort is another man’s discomfort. For me, it’s so unexotic, this idea of accepting the difficulties of whatever – being a mother and just finding it difficult. I think I’m quite good at finding things difficult.”
- From The Room #14 interview with Tilda Swinton on playing a mother who hates and resents her pregnancy and motherhood
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I like the combination of being required to be as authentic as possible—as unwatched—while remaining in some kind of communication with the camera, our great machine for empathy, and all the eyes beyond it.
- Tilda Swinton on Being Photographed - Time by Peter Hapak, December 8th 2011
(Source: TIME)
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There are pretty much no photographs in existence of me between the ages of about 9 and 25. My shyness made me crafty, long before I was persuaded by photographers to parlay it into something like revenge on the shymakers—and I got very good at sliding sideways out of the frame at the last minute.
Tilda Swinton on Being Photographed - Time by Peter Hapak, December 8th 2011
(Source: TIME)
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The position of artist’s model is one in which I feel quite comfortable: frankly, were I able to choose, it would be a preferable description of my occupation—something between artist’s model and clown, for the sake of fuller disclosure.
Tilda Swinton on Being Photographed - Time by Peter Hapak, December 8th 2011
(Source: TIME)
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I sometimes think that being photographed by a clicking still camera is infinitely more satisfying to me than shifting about for a whirring moving one. But in both cases, silence is grace. Still portraits operate their own code.
Tilda Swinton on Being Photographed - Time by Peter Hapak, December 8th 2011
(Source: TIME)
