Before You Are Interviewed For The Job

I Assure You That Even The Most Beautiful Women Are Not Pretty All Over. They Have Merely Learned To Use Clothes Deftly Enough To Give Others The Impression That They Are.

What A Costume Designer Does Is A Cross Between Magic And Camouflage. We Create The Illusion Of Changing The Actors Into What They Are Not. We Ask The Public To Believe That Every Time They See A Performer On The Screen He's Become A Different Person.

Couture Has Copied My Things For Years, In Addition To Countless Other Costume Designers, Claiming Theirs Were The Original Ideas. It's All Part Of The Business, Unfortunately.

I Always Wear Beige, Black Or White. For One Thing I Look Good In Them. For Another, When I'm Beside A Star At A Fitting, And She Looks Into The Mirror, I Don't Want To Be Competing In Any Way.

There's No Such Thing As A Standard Size Movie Star, Or Woman For That Matter.