Celine Song

Celine Song (born Song Ha-Young; Korean: 송하영; born September 19, 1988) is a Canadian director, playwright, and screenwriter based in the United States. Among her plays are Endlings and The Seagull on The Sims 4. Her directorial film debut Past Lives received critical acclaim, and was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay at the 96th Academy Awards.

Celine Song at Berlinale 2023

Quotes

• As an artist, the thing that you want the most for your work is for it to be alive. Every new thing you do has to feel completely alive to you. And what works for me always is that there has to be some part of it that is brand new to me, more or less something that I haven’t done before ever. Something that scares me or something that makes me feel like it is going to teach me something. Something that I think is smarter than me. Those are the things that I really hope for in every single project that I do. So whatever it may be the projects that I want to do are always the things that are going to make me feel alive doing them, because I don’t want to beat a dead horse.
  • Szala, Georg (2023-07-05). "Celine Song on How Making 'Past Lives' Led her to Fall "So Hard in Love With Filmmaking"".