Photos and Quotes from the Press Conference for Portrait of a Lady on Fire

"I wanted to depict a love story and make the audience feel in love. I wanted to talk about women artists and women painters specifically... We think about how we look at things and how someone looks at someone else, it's a range of things, that is it's a whole palette of things."

-Céline Sciamma

"Celine suggest that I played the part of an artist who discovers her own identity and I thought she had a very powerful role as a woman. You must learn to be confident and bit by bit she sheds the rules and the conventions and discover who she is."

-Noémie Merlant