A biography for Celine Sciammahasn’t been written yet.
“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 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.”
“I think I was a child at 12-years-old, which seems amazing today.”
“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.”
“I want to do the most feminist, radical film.”
“Directing adults is not the same kind of collaboration as you have with a teenager or kid.”
“As a screenwriter, you're always being told: a good scene is one where somebody wants something, the other one doesn't want to give it.”
“Wonder Woman' is thinking about me. It's thinking about my pleasure, about my sisters, about the history of cinema and women's representation. It gives us joy but also rage.”
“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.”
“The cinema should offer new images, create new memories.”
“A kid is always locked down inside their family. In the film, I felt like talking about loss and death, which we've had a lot of right now, but you know, the experience of lockdown maybe gave me more courage to believe we could create cinema while all locked in our houses.”
“I don't write a synopsis, I don't write a treatment. I write scene by scene.”
“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.'”
“Well, regarding actors, my idol is Catherine Deneuve, but not in relation to my work, I'm just a fan. As far as genres, I've been reading a lot of science fiction, and I would love to make a fantastic film.”
“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.”
“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'm not a big Avengers person. I don't have a lot of that culture. But you can totally enjoy 'WandaVision' without having that.”
“A few weeks ago I went to a screening of 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' at Utopia. I'm not a very introspective person but when I get on that stage, it feels even more overwhelming than showing my films at the Cannes film festival. Because standing there, I'm so close to my past. I can see how far I've come.”
“I don't feel like I have a special connection to childhood.”
“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.”