- When you work on a Woody Allen film, you have a very, very limited budget. How limited? The entire wardrobe budget for this film [ Blue Jasmine (2013)} was $35,000. And when I say $35,000, we're doing the extras, too. When I read the script, panic set in. I thought, there is no way this film can be done. Ultimately, I just lay myself at the feet of the designers. I was on the phone all day begging. It helped that when you threw out Woody's name and Cate [Blanchett] 's name, doors opened.
- [re Cate Blanchett] When Cate comes into a room as an actress, the other Cate, the fashion Cate, is left behind. I assisted Theoni V. Aldredge for a long time and saw the same thing happen with other great actors - De Niro, for instance. His whole demeanor changes when he puts on the clothes. With the good ones, the clothes change the way they walk, the way they stand. For Blue Jasmine (2013), I had I don't know how many racks of clothes in my loft, and Cate came in one morning and immediately went to a simple sheath dress and said, 'This is not something I'd ever wear in a million years, but I'm feeling Jasmine right now.'
- For some reason, everybody that gets cast in a Woody Allen film immediately goes on a diet. I told Woody he should do a diet book. I hadn't seen Andrew Dice Clay since the first fittings, and all of a sudden when he came to the set everything is too big. He was a 42 waist. Now he's a 36. Even the guy that plays a cabdriver in the film went on a diet. Alec Baldwin was on a diet. We were taking his clothes in every two minutes.
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