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Top 25 Colleen Atwood Quotes (2025 Update)

Colleen Atwood Quote: “Every project starts with a story.”

1. “Every project starts with a story.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.”

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

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.”

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

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Colleen Atwood Quote: “I like the architecture of lingerie.”

5. “I like the architecture of lingerie.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

7. “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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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

8. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.”

11. “On Planet of the Apes, I had a very knowledgeable team who knew good materials, but I had one main source person who worked online and on the street continually looking for the proper materials.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.”

14. “Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.”

15. “Planet of the Apes was a gigantic challenge, making the clothes work so people could do stunts and action in the clothes. I really learned a lot about that in that movie.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.”

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

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.”

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

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “I’ve always loved movies, art and clothes.”

21. “I’ve always loved movies, art and clothes.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “I don’t design my own clothes. It’s so not what I think about.”

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

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

23. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Colleen Atwood Quote: “In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.”

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

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Colleen Atwood Quote: “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.”

27. “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

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