Latest Colleen Atwood Quotes from Interviews

• 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.

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

  Colleen Atwood

  Budgets

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Age, Use, Research

  Source: collider.com

• 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

  Source: collider.com

• 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

• 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

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

  Colleen Atwood

  Thinking, Clothes, Design

  Source: collider.com