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.

The costumes had to serve the choreography.

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.

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

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.

I’ve always loved movies, art and clothes.

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.

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.

I’d seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn’t use them necessarily as inspiration.

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.