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.

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.

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.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

Every project starts with a story.

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.

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