My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.
Celine SciammaRead
Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.
Interpretation
Women filmmakers have significantly contributed to cinema, yet their contributions are often overlooked.
Celine Sciamma highlights the importance of recognizing women's roles in the cinematic history, emphasizing that while they have made valuable contributions, these achievements are frequently marginalized or erased from mainstream narratives. This quote calls for greater acknowledgment and visibility of women's work in film, advocating for a more inclusive understanding of cinema's legacy.
In practice
During a film festival celebrating female directors.
My work has always been about not being conventional and male gaze is convention.
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 it all comes together, a creative life has the nourishing power we normally associate with food, love and faith.
I don't think I've ever written a poem whose intention was just to be funny. I've written poems that start out funny and often shift into something more serious.
I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.
There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
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