John Malkovich 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 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.

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

I was very interested in theatre, so my first love of fashion comes from costume, and I think that's pretty clear within my work and the level of theatricality.

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

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

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 discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

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

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.

I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.

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 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.

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design.

My background is in theater. I was a theater major in college.

It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.

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

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

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 don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

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.

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

You start out as an artist in some way or other. And my background is all theater, and I goofed into doing TV comedy.