66 Quotes by Céline Sciamma

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

I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters into the big fiction, and the classical idea of a heroine's emancipation.

I identify myself with the male gaze, I grew up with the male gaze, I've been excited by the male gaze. I'm a product of that culture.

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

The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.

So I guess with females, it should be acknowledged that we're more hybrid. We can be anything. Maybe we're more free to create.

I think my movies are very much about the female gaze... But it's not going to happen magically if you're a woman. It's still something you have to deconstruct, but it's not something you have to be vigilant about.

I like the sensitive look of traditional French films and the fact that the children are often portrayed as rebels, but I also like the way the American tradition stylises everything and is full of fantasy around childhood.

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