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.