Production Designers

"I make sure I do what needs to be done."

"Your work can never be at the same level."

"I hope we can get together to make this cinema accessible."

"What is it that you leave behind when you leave home? And is it possible to recreate it?"

"I remember thinking: “that’s what I want to do.”"

"I would like to encourage my fellow Rwandan female filmmakers to pursue their dreams and ambitions."

"I have also been moving around a lot and it is kind of hard to keep track of where I am."

"We will get to tell our stories, because the world is ready for us all."

"I like serious subjects but treated in a light form."

"The thing is that everything comes at once, and when it goes quiet it really gets quiet."

"It is a difficult path, but it is possible and I am glad to be walking on it."

"I don’t know how anybody would like to do anything but CGI today. Because they sit there on the computer and they can make it look so real."

"Thinking of Edward Scissorhands, a nostalgic wave washes over me."

"I can't think of a production designer working today who if offered the chance to design a horrible, rundown carnival/circus with all of the tents and wagons and all of the grotesquery, wouldn't leap at the opportunity because it's so much fun at an aesthetic level."

"I look for beauty and a pleasing aesthetic within the most mundane, most banal and try to find beauty. As horrible as those places are, you still get it and think it’s sort of cool. The goal is to experience it cinematically and in person and bathe in it."

"I do rough drawings. And then I work with concept artists who see my rough drawings and say “oh this is what you want!” And they generate, just gorgeous concept art, and then when people sign off on it, we really love everything, then you get a blueprint. You take the blueprint and go “oh I see.” And so the set decorator, costume designer, everyone gets it, and without slavishly copying it, although concept art and stills from our show usually match up, that’s fun. It’s all about control."

"My feeling is that, if you do your due process and go back to the well, grab the original inspiration and just develop it from the ground up, it is just, by its own nature, going to be different."

"The biggest impression I got from doing Dumbo, it was an extremely arduous prep and build – as with all of these projects that are worth doing. There’s a challenge there in which you’re not absolutely sure you know where you’re going from the beginning. And so part of the pleasure and the gratifying aspect of it is the ability to surprise and hopefully delight yourself in what it is you’re able to discover that you couldn’t anticipate."

"The Reality? Is it then so certain that Life is made of four Absurdities? Is it not far more certain that life is made up of Four Beauties of Calmness, Joy, Harmony, Rhythm... The truest reality. And what of the expression of all this — Art? Must Pandemonium and Ugliness ever stand for Strength?"

"I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors."