Like Butterflies Quotes by Lina Wertmuller

My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my…

— Lina Wertmuller

When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.

— Lina Wertmuller

I don't think suicide is so terrible. Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to…

— Lina Wertmuller

To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.

— Lina Wertmuller

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

— Lina Wertmuller

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

— Lina Wertmuller

For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.

— Lina Wertmuller

Film is my big problem. I am involved too much. I love too much. I've been trying to resolve it for 35 years now,…

— Lina Wertmuller

What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a…

— Lina Wertmuller

I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.

— Lina Wertmuller

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon'…

— Lina Wertmuller

I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.

— Lina Wertmuller

I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.

— Lina Wertmuller

Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.

— Lina Wertmuller

I love life. I love my friends. I love to eat. Too many things, I love. I am very much an anti-historical character. I…

— Lina Wertmuller