66 Quotes by Céline Sciamma

I don't care about being a pioneer. People act like it would be cool to be a pioneer. I'm okay to be looked at as that, but it's just that we don't get transmitted our cultural heritage as women artists.

When I made my first film I was 25 years old, and that's pretty rare. Being so young my experience and the thing that I wanted to talk about was teenagehood, plus in France we have that strong tradition of the coming-of-age story being made as your first film.

What's universal in America about teenagehood is a middle-class white boy with average dreams.

I do not want to belong to cinema history. I am a woman - I know I'm doomed anyway.

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

The dream of the theater for for me is that it's a room full of adults and kids. I want kids and grownups to be totally focused on the same object.

I wanted to talk about women artists but I wanted to depart from the biopic dynamic, that trope where a strong woman succeeds in a very oppressive world. This idea that 'it can happen if you want.'

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

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