Streamers are a great way to get my stories out and share my messages with more people. — Maimouna Doucoure Great Copy Share Image
My father is a street sweeper, my mother works in a shop. — Maimouna Doucoure Father Copy Share Image
When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women. — Maimouna Doucoure Around Copy Share Image
Cuties' is universal, and it raises concerns that involve all world societies. — Maimouna Doucoure Concerns Copy Share Image
I think where policy fails cinema can help to bring people together. — Maimouna Doucoure Cinema Copy Share Image
We, as adults, have not given children the tools to grow up healthy in our society. — Maimouna Doucoure Children Copy Share Image
I would never judge another woman. For me, being a feminist means that even if we don't agree on everything, we should… — Maimouna Doucoure Another woman Copy Share Image
We ask these young girls to grow up too fast. In the society where they grow up, they are asked to grow… — Maimouna Doucoure Direction Copy Share Image
For me, what counts the most is my film. I can express myself and therefore take care of myself through my art.… — Maimouna Doucoure Art Copy Share Image
I really wanted to show the suffering of women and particularly of children because, for me, we often forget to think about… — Maimouna Doucoure Children Copy Share Image
I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage… — Maimouna Doucoure Community Copy Share Image
When young girls can get 400,000 likes by doing a sexy selfie... we have to offer them another way of being. To… — Maimouna Doucoure Being Copy Share Image
I'm a French director, but what's important for me is that my stories have a universal message, whatever language they're filmed in. — Maimouna Doucoure Cinema Copy Share Image
Today you have that exposition of your body on social media and you also have this big competition of finding 'likes' and… — Maimouna Doucoure Competition Copy Share Image
What happens is young girls see images of women being objectified, and the more the woman becomes an object the more followers… — Maimouna Doucoure Old Copy Share Image
I met over a hundred preteens who told me their stories. I asked them how they felt about their femininity in today's… — Maimouna Doucoure Identity Copy Share Image
We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was:… — Maimouna Doucoure Body Copy Share Image
Television is a sort of mirror of society, but for me, I never saw my reflection in it. Which makes it quite… — Maimouna Doucoure Difficult Copy Share Image
When I was 10 and 11, my dream was to be a boy. I saw that there were so many injustices that… — Maimouna Doucoure Boys Copy Share Image
It's important to be vigilant at all stages of the making of a film. The theme of a work should be represented… — Maimouna Doucoure Cinema Copy Share Image
All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French. — Maimouna Doucoure All my life Copy Share Image
Love and self-esteem are constructed through likes and followers. — Maimouna Doucoure Followers Copy Share Image
I want to say to this guy and everyone who thinks that femininity means you don't have the power to think, to… — Maimouna Doucoure Create Copy Share Image
Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is… — Maimouna Doucoure Body Copy Share Image
