I look at comic books, and I do very eclectic mood boards with ideas and images that have to do with a character or story point. It's a bit like spinning plates. You gradually just steal your ideas.

I use color very instinctively.

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

The main way I start to allocate color is that it comes from the comics. That's where it all starts from.

Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

Love thy soul, manifest thy light

I feel like God gave me an amazing ability, and it's my duty to show people what I'm made of.

I played the mom in Spy Kids when I was, like, 27. So it was ridiculous. But [Robert Rodriguez] was like, "You know what? If we do our job right, no one will question it." And nobody did.

I guess I was popular in high school.

In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact.

You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.

I'll talk to myself out loud a lot.

Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.