Colleen Atwood Quotes

• 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

  Character, First Impression, Costumes

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Moving, Reality, People

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• 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

  Beautiful, Clothes, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

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• Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

  Colleen Atwood

  Art, Book, Inspiration

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• Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

  Colleen Atwood

  Budgets

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• 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

  Dream, Looks, Stories

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• 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, Thinking, Directors

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• Every project starts with a story.

  Colleen Atwood

  Stories, Projects

  Interview with Alison McFadden, everydayshortcuts.com. January 7, 2015.

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• 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

  Diversity, And Love, Details

  "10-Time Oscar Nominee Colleen Atwood on 'Snow White and the Huntsman's' Costume Design (Q&A)". Interview with Victoria Ellison, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2013.

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Mind

  "Geisha style is a hit with Westerners". www.today.com. December 8, 2005.

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• 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

  Dark, Light, Color

  "Tim Burton's Costume Designer on How She Brings His Iconic Characters to Life". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 3, 2016.

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• 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, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Done, Stuff, Standing Out

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• I don't design my own clothes. It's so not what I think about.

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, Clothes, Design

  Source: collider.com

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• Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.

  Colleen Atwood

  Sleep, Action, Fairy Tale

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• 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

  Design, Floating, Lasts

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Fashion, Trends, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Reality, Chicago, Fairy Tale

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• I like the architecture of lingerie.

  Colleen Atwood

  Lingerie, Architecture

  "Costume Legend Colleen Atwood and Composer Marco Beltrami Reflect On Their Careers". Interview with Zainab Akande, www.indiewire.com. November 7, 2014.

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• In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

  Colleen Atwood

  Real, People, Kimonos

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• I always carry pictures of my children and grandchildren, which is what makes it all worthwhile. It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in Alice in Wonderland or a doll with grandma's dress.

  Colleen Atwood

  Children, Fun, Grandma

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• Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles.

  Colleen Atwood

  Class, Style, Trying

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• I've always loved movies, art and clothes.

  Colleen Atwood

  Art, Clothes

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• I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

  Colleen Atwood

  Moving, Work Out, Leotards

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