Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. Colleen Atwood More Quotes by Colleen Atwood More Quotes From Colleen Atwood The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all. Colleen Atwood reality people moving Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller. Colleen Atwood budgets Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me. Colleen Atwood inspiration book art If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story. Colleen Atwood color light want I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them. Colleen Atwood fun directors thinking I think the silhouette of the kimono costume will become engraved in people's minds. I do think there'll be lots of red accents in the near future. For me personally, I can't see myself flaunting around in a geisha uniform but it'll make me smile when I see what others do with it. Colleen Atwood mind people thinking Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer. Colleen Atwood jobs people thinking I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about. Colleen Atwood clothes design thinking I love Johnny (Depp). A lot of the stuff I've done for him stands out for me just because of the relationship and who he is. Colleen Atwood standing-out done stuff I like the architecture of lingerie. Colleen Atwood lingerie architecture Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality. Colleen Atwood fairy-tale chicago reality Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. Colleen Atwood fairy-tale action sleep Every story is different, so what is a detail in one might not be in something else. Diversity is something I embrace and love about my work. Colleen Atwood details diversity and-love As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things. Colleen Atwood clothes beautiful people Every project starts with a story. Colleen Atwood projects stories The whole switch from film to digital has changed some of the ways I use color and the juxtaposition of light and dark. It's getting better with digital, the separation's gotten better, but I still feel like it's really flatter than film, so I do a lot of screening and subtle textural printing and painting on clothes for film to get it not to look flat. Colleen Atwood color light dark Sometimes you have dreams about the day or something like that. But, for the story, it's just present and what you have left ahead of you to do and how things look that day that you reflect on. It's just there until you're done. Colleen Atwood stories dream looks I have assistants that use the internet a lot more than I do. I use the internet for photo research, but for me personally, probably just because of my age, I'm not that mechanically inclined. Colleen Atwood research use age I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie and it's always been floating up there but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me. Colleen Atwood floating design lasts If I'm doing something contemporary, for sure I'm very aware of what's going on. Personally, I like fashion trends, but when I'm doing a movie, it doesn't affect what I do particularly at all. I don't relate to it in that way. Colleen Atwood trends fashion way
