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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."
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"Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."

"When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago."

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"Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator."
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"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."

"Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were."

"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."

"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."

"Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are."

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