As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

In real life, a lot of people at that level will have their kimonos made especially for them.

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

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

I like the architecture of lingerie.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

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

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the 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.

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and what they want to do with them.

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

A good plan is like a road map: It shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.

it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

The election is another element of ambiguity, .. and oil remains the crucial variable.

The supremacy of public opinion determines not only the singular role that economics occupies in the complex of thought and knowledge. It determines the whole process of human history.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.

Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing This side of death, Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!