John Boyega Quotes

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.'

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

The 'Game of Thrones' wardrobe department is so detail-oriented.

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.

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

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.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer.

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

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

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.

The costumes had to serve the choreography.

And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on.

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 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.

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

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

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

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

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