Quotes

[on designing films set in present day] People expect you to go to the store and buy it so you're really not designing anything. You turn into a shopper. And they make deals with companies you don't want. Everyone will wear ____.

[on the likelihood of her winning an Academy Award for costume design] I'm up against too many sequins.

[on David Lynch] My mind is odd, too, so we fit nicely. I don't find him strange so there you go.

[on working with David Lynch] We don't have to talk a lot. We sorta have the same definition of ugly.

[on being picky about the projects that she designs] It's one of those things. Save your money and you don't have to do anything. I do just what I want to do. If it doesn't come along I just do housework.

[on the television show Twin Peaks (1990)] We didn't want it to look like a Hollywood TV show, where everyone overdresses. The idea is to bring a certain reality so you're not even aware of the clothes.

David Lynch: Patty reads the scripts and dials into the character and dresses them, she has great taste. Each person comes out and couldn't be better. In Blue Velvet (1986), what _Dennis Hopper_'s wearing, when you look at him, immediately, the way he's dressed you get a feeling for who he is, a lot of things came though the way he's dressed.

I tend to look at things from an art standpoint. More than who's in it - what you can do visually with it.