I adore the work of Lucas and Spielberg. I'm certainly not trying to minimize their talents, but I'd love to see what they could do when they aren't leading us from reality. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them. — Lina Wertmuller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
