Mahira Khan 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 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.

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

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are.

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.'

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

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 know a lot of actors talk about the importance of wardrobe, and it always seems like it's kind of a cop-out, maybe, because it seems like a minor detail to some people. But I think it's hugely important.

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

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

'Up the Junction' really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make 'Bhaji on the Beach,' it was this sense I tried to recreate.

It really helps me to get into the character of the record when I have a designated look. It just really simplifies things for me.

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 think Jenny Beavan is a masterful costume designer and very deserving of the Oscar for 'Mad Max: Fury Road.'

Wardrobe is - in films, I could say it's a good half of the acting. You get the right rags on, they'll talk for you.

On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.

It's funny: I don't get to play characters where I wear what I want to wear. With 'Mad Men,' if Janie Bryant doesn't laugh at me, then that outfit doesn't make it to air.

What a character wears and how it affects their mood and their movements has always been very important to me. A character's clothes, if they're truthful, can make audiences feel something.