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

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.

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

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

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.

Every project starts with a story.

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.