I like the idea of a trilogy. It's cool. I like the word. When you do four, the word isn't cool - not as cool.

- Celine Sciamma

The movie not only about what story you're telling and who you're looking at. It's mostly about how you're telling it and how you're looking at it. A…

- Celine Sciamma

I was a lot younger - when I wrote Water Lilies. I was like 26. It felt so natural to write about adolescence.

- Celine Sciamma

Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else. Girlhood is not about what it's like to be a…

- Celine Sciamma

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

- Celine Sciamma

I intentionally leave adults out in my stories, not to say that they're not in charge or that they don't care, or that they're failing at what they d…

- Celine Sciamma

I mean, putting women in the center of a movie and not talking about men, that's already political, right? And you know, political doesn't mean that …

- Celine Sciamma

Being in a group is a way to actually to speak up, and define yourself in the comfort, and the complexity of the group.

- Celine Sciamma

I like to work around identification for the audience, and when there's a grown-up or a moral figure or something like that, people tend to go there.

- Celine Sciamma