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I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.

It's often said that costume designers are a faceless group of people. But we can contribute to fashion in a way that might be new and different.

There is so much talent in Australia.

Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasn't always translated to the streets.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.