Colleen Atwood Quotes

I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

Making television is difficult. Making any art is difficult.

When I did 'Mimic,' it was such a difficult experience to try to make. Believe it or not, I did try to make a really adult giant bug movie. And then, in the course of the process, it kind of died a horrible death and gave birth to the movie that exists now, which now, in retrospect, I like. But it's not the movie I set out to do.

Making a movie is a network of decisions that keep multiplying as you go. You leave a trail of decisions behind you, and that's how you start to see the shape of what you've done. When you get far enough, you turn around and say, 'Ha, that's the movie.' It's only then that you find out if it's going to work or not.

Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

I don't know how anyone ever makes a good movie. It's a miracle every time.

Generating comic material can sometimes get the better of you.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

The truth of the matter is coming up with a title is one of the most challenging things we do.

I turned my hand to costume design a few years ago when I created the outfits for 'This Is the Sea,' with Richard Harris and Samantha Morton. It's a very different discipline to being a fashion designer, though - you have to rein in your own vision and work to a tight brief.

I think everyone loves 'The Departed.' That was a movie that had a lot of problems structurally. And we had to battle with it. Fight. Experiment. Try different things. And I think finally we hit it.

My biggest struggle is time and trying to create the quality of music that I want.

I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.

Number one, I am a true movie maker. And, you know, I am very much - I don't want to say infatuated, but I'm impressed with the art of making a movie and invoking emotion. You know, when I started making movies, I thought it was easy, and then when I got into it, I was like, 'This is not easy at all.'

There is certainly no formula of making a successful film, but there are means to make a sensible film.

I'd say 'Codename Baboushka' has been a slightly more difficult process for me, but I think that's precisely because it's quite different to my usual fare. And even then, being difficult doesn't make me prefer it, or not, to anything else. I like a challenge.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

For me, filming is always like delivery pains.

It took me a year just to edit 'Shotgun Stories.' Actually, it took me two years to edit 'Shotgun Stories.'

If you have total freedom to design, you won't get anything interesting. So I give myself restraints in order to kind of push myself through, to create something new. It's the torture that I give myself, the pain and the struggle that I go through.

I enjoy production more than acting, as one is involved in many aspects of film-making.

Be passionate about your [movie] material, because you're going to have to overcome a lot of "No's," and it's that passion that fuels the fight.

Composing was more difficult than writing things down.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.