22 Quotes by 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 am attracted to happy people. Happy people with very grave problems.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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