Colleen Atwood Quotes

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

For one thing, I am still working as an adviser on fashion, design and colour and stuff.

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

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

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 love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'

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.

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 design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

I realised I've got quite a talent for coming up with ideas for design. I've got so many ideas about fashion.

I have always loved clothes, and the opportunity to design my own line could not be missed. It's a dream job.

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

I can't just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she's from. It's almost like playing a child's game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.

I've always wanted to design clothes.

I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

Truthfully, the hardest part about fashion is not the vision or one great idea, but the execution of each aspect.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I always had an interest in fashion because my mom is a celebrity fashion stylist. I grew up being on set or in showrooms.

Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Designing was always something I was interested in. I studied fashion design in high school as well as how to sew.