Celine Sciamma

Lady Gaga is not saying anything new, she's just quoting something that's already been said, and staging it. It rarely seems sincere.…

— Celine Sciamma

Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else.…

— Celine Sciamma

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

— Celine Sciamma

I'm not a big Avengers person. I don't have a lot of that culture. But you can totally enjoy 'WandaVision' without having…

— Celine Sciamma

Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid.

— Celine Sciamma

Well, I think I'm trying to be in the middle of two traditions, the French tradition, which is about being fair and…

— Celine Sciamma

We are always told that with women's rights and opportunities for women there's been constant progress, and it isn't true. It works…

— Celine Sciamma

A kid is always locked down inside their family. In the film, I felt like talking about loss and death, which we've…

— Celine Sciamma

I wanted the ending of 'Water Lilies' to be open, so that everyone can have their point of view about what will…

— Celine Sciamma

I wrote the screenplay for 'Water Lilies' while I was studying screenwriting at La Femis film school in Paris, and the director…

— Celine Sciamma

I think movies, I think art, can change the world.

— Celine Sciamma

We're always being told that there's a linear progress regarding women. It only gets better, especially for women artists. It's not true.

— Celine Sciamma

Wonder Woman' is thinking about me. It's thinking about my pleasure, about my sisters, about the history of cinema and women's representation.…

— Celine Sciamma

I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters…

— Celine Sciamma

To me synchronised swimming is a metaphor for the job of being a girl. They have to fake their smiles, they're made…

— Celine Sciamma

When I made my first film I was 25 years old, and that's pretty rare. Being so young my experience and the…

— Celine Sciamma

Love educates us about art. Art consoles us from lost love. Our great loves are a condition of our future love.

— Celine Sciamma

I consider my first three films a trilogy and I was finished with discussing the topic of teenagehood and coming of age.

— Celine Sciamma

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

— Celine Sciamma

I grew up in a world where stories and images were made and told by men. So I know this world very…

— Celine Sciamma

The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and…

— Celine Sciamma

I filmed 'Water Lilies' in Cergy-Pointoise, a middle-class suburb about 20 km outside Paris. It's where I grew up and where Eric…

— Celine Sciamma

Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.

— Celine Sciamma

I wanted to talk about women artists but I wanted to depart from the biopic dynamic, that trope where a strong woman…

— Celine Sciamma

Really, with 'Water Lilies', the project was to end the movie where other movies would begin.

— Celine Sciamma