Colleen Atwood Quotes

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.

But I've always loved the whole costuming part of acting.

I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and they're tight. In 'Moby,' it's like you're wearing pajamas, and you have more freedom. It's very comfortable on stage.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.