I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

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.

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.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

Happiness requires a balance. If you feel rejected, you need to pursue love with dignity. If you feel put down you need to restore your dignity in an attractive fashion.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!

Freedom means more than just struggling to survive.

All really great flying adventures begin at dawn.

Style is time’s fool. Form is time’s student

We cannot escape the clear fact that what is going to win in this world is reason, if this ever becomes a reasonable world.