Celine Sciamma

Shooting with kids you only have three hours on set per day, so you have to know what you want. You have…

— Celine Sciamma

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm…

— Celine Sciamma

I don't feel like I have a special connection to childhood.

— Celine Sciamma

Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze. They don't see themselves anymore.

— Celine Sciamma

I think my movies are very much about the female gaze... But it's not going to happen magically if you're a woman.…

— Celine Sciamma

I was kind of a tomboy when I was the age of the character. I could be mistaken for a boy -…

— Celine Sciamma

I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I…

— Celine Sciamma

We all have to deconstruct the looks in ourselves. It's easier if you see different cultures and different imagery than just the…

— Celine Sciamma

The dream of the theater for for me is that it's a room full of adults and kids. I want kids and…

— Celine Sciamma

As a screenwriter, you're always being told: a good scene is one where somebody wants something, the other one doesn't want to…

— Celine Sciamma

But what I think I like about coming-of-age stories is that there's everything in them. It's a genre that kind of contains…

— Celine Sciamma

Of course, every movie is political, some people just deny it because they like the world the way it is.

— Celine Sciamma

My film-making is the privilege of French cinema. I would have to do things totally differently elsewhere. But I think I could…

— Celine Sciamma

I decided to put cinema at the centre of my life when I was 13 and going through the biggest crisis of…

— Celine Sciamma

People keep telling me, "You don't like boys!" And I'm saying, "Wow, no, it's just that you're not used to them being…

— Celine Sciamma

My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.

— Celine Sciamma

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right?

— Celine Sciamma

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

— Celine Sciamma

I'm always embarrassed when I'm asked about meaning, because it is what you make it. The meaning is yours, so it's not…

— Celine Sciamma

That's why I like my job so much, cinema is a nation. I see on Twitter, there's people are calling themselves Portrait…

— Celine Sciamma

With 'Back to the Future', time-traveling lets you go back to a better, more comfortable life where your parents are happy and…

— Celine Sciamma

I'm a woman director and my movies are shown all around the world.

— Celine Sciamma

My films have mostly been about the rise of desire as the discovery of oneself.

— Celine Sciamma

Working with young actors is really going with trust. I never see them act beforehand. Because that's not their job. It's my…

— Celine Sciamma

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of…

— Celine Sciamma