Wertmuller Quotes

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

Lina Wertmuller

#2. I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left. Do not speak to me of being a Shadowhunter. I am not one of them. I refuse to be.

Cassandra Clare

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

Lina Wertmuller

#4. It got to the point where it became logical: if a woman was fiercely intelligent, outspoken and passionate, I'd look towards her arms for the scars. They were almost always there.

Sabrina Chapadjiev

#5. Sadness, though, is probably the hardest thing of all to hide because sorrow has a way of seeping out however well people think they're containing it. You only have to look to see the signs, but most people don't, which is why so many seem to end up feeling lonely.

Martin Pistorius

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

Lina Wertmuller

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

Lina Wertmuller

#8. 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, but for now, I have to keep making them.

Lina Wertmuller

#9. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.

Rand Paul

#10. Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.

Marnie Stern

#11. Even after killing ninety nine tigers the Maharaja should beware of the hundredth.

Kalki Krishnamurthy

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

Lina Wertmuller

#13. 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 shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.

Lina Wertmuller

#14. When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

Lina Wertmuller

#15. He is the playfulness of creation, scandal and utter goodness, the generosity of the ocean and the ferocity of a thunderstorm; he is cunning as a snake and gentle as a whisper; the gladness of sunshine and the humility of a thirty-mile walk by foot on a dirt road.

John Eldredge

#16. Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.

Lina Wertmuller

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

Lina Wertmuller

#18. My first customer is myself. When I tell a story I like, I can sleep easy. I'm sorry when audiences don't like it, but I have no choice.

Lina Wertmuller

#19. 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

#20. This Earth. It seems like mankind evolves to a higher state and then they allow power and greed to completely absorb them and what they have learned. Then they are destroyed, and they take many, many steps backward.

Dolores Cannon

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

Lina Wertmuller

#22. When I was a girl, we all wanted to have fun. That's all we thought about. It didn't occur to us to get married and have babies.

Lina Wertmuller

#23. Law without reason is criminal.

Criss Jami

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

Lina Wertmuller

#25. 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 am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

Lina Wertmuller

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

Lina Wertmuller