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I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Director
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Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Love Work Movies
Ah
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To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Creativity
Engaged
Love Is
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For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Army
Macho
Sergeant
Feminists
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When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Freedom
Dirty
Real
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Prizes are like butterflies, colorful butterflies that fly away. I don't believe in prizes much.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Colorful
Butterflies
Prizes
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I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Angel
Filmmaking
Witch
Transform
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I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Lady
Making Movies
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The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Movie
Different
Levels
People
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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 / Film Writer
Babies
Get Married
Have Fun
Occur
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Enlightened
Extremist
Feminists
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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 / Film Writer
Sorry
Customer
No Choice
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When you make many films with the same actors you can develop a special understanding with them. I love working with people I know and that I trust.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
People
Special
Understanding
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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 / Film Writer
Resolve
Big Problem
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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 / Film Writer
Adore
Love Work Reality
Talents
Leading
Lucas
Minimize
Spielberg
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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 / Film Writer
Happy
Character
Happy People
Love Life
Life Love I Am
Life Love Character
Attracted
Grave
Problems
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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.
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Suicidal
Suicide
Winter
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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 / Film Writer
Flash
Ran
Astaire
Me Young See
Formative
Gordon
Imbecile
Rogers
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Even American artists are terrorized by market forces. If one can't see the films, my wings are clipped. I am no longer concerned about this, because I'm focused on making films. Perhaps one day someone who discovers sunken treasures will reexamine my 35 or 36 films - I hope it will be 40 or 50 before I die.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Concerned
Focused
One Day
Wings
Die
Artists
Discovers
Films
Forces
Longer
Market
Market Forces
Perhaps
Treasures
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My two souls, the socially conscious one and the lighthearted one, are always in my movies because they find a perfect habitat in my grotesque style, which combines tragedy and humor, irony and sarcasm, comedy and drama. I also feel that rules are made to be broken, especially in art! I prefer creative disorder to strict rules.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Art
Drama
Sarcasm
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What is important is not that you have a defeat but how you react to it. There is always the possibility to transform a defeat into something else, something new, something strong. All the good stories, all the people we remember are the ones who do this, who make victories out of their failures. Because the victories teach nothing. The victories are not useful. They are often dangerous.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
People
Strong
Victory
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if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.
Lina Wertmuller / Film Writer
Art
Passion
Thinking
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