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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.