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 enterta…

- Colleen Atwood

Be really good with budgets because they keep getting smaller.

- Colleen Atwood

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

- Colleen Atwood

Every project starts with a story.

- Colleen Atwood

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.

- Colleen Atwood

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

- Colleen Atwood

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 push…

- Colleen Atwood

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.

- Colleen Atwood

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…

- Colleen Atwood