With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?

Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.

My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

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.

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.