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

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

I think movies, I think art, can change the world. - Celine Sciamma

I was kind of a tomboy when I was the age of the character. I could be mistaken for a boy - sometimes I found it cool and sometimes I found it hard, but I remember the excitement. - Celine Sciamma

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

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

That's why I like my job so much, cinema is a nation. I see on Twitter, there's people are calling themselves Portrait Nation. That's beautiful. To me, it's about campaigning for cinema, that's my commitment. - 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 about what I think. It's for us all to reflect and change perspectives. - 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 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. - 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 everything: you have the chronicle, you can go into naturalism, but it's also about transforming physically, so it's kind of a fantastical genre. - Celine Sciamma

Every film relies on our brain and heart to expand its universe. 'Petite Maman' leaves room for your story to be looked at in that room. - 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 up like dolls and they can't show the effort they're making, yet under the surface of the water it's a struggle and a sacrifice. - 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. It's still something you have to deconstruct, but it's not something you have to be vigilant about. - Celine Sciamma

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

When you are bringing a love story to screen, how do you embody desire and love? How do you get away from the conventions of romantic comedy where it's love at first sight? - 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

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

I wrote the screenplay for 'Water Lilies' while I was studying screenwriting at La Femis film school in Paris, and the director Xavier Beauvois, who was on the graduation committee, told me I had to make the film myself. - Celine Sciamma

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