Lina Wertmuller
Lina Wertmuller
Lina Wertmüller is an Italian screenwriter and film director best known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, Swept Away, and Seven Beauties. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for Seven Beauties...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth14 August 1928
CityRome, Italy
CountryItaly
call interested movies people
I know they call me a crazy lady, but I'm only interested in making movies and having people see them.
attracted grave happy life love people
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.
strong people victory
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.
movie people different
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.
adore certainly leading love lucas minimize trying work
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.
concerned discovers films focused hope longer market perhaps treasures
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.
occur
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.
attitude feminists women
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
audiences customer
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.
demands witch
I've always been an angel. Sometimes I transform into a witch only because the filmmaking demands it.
men
I am a director. I'm the one who can order men around.
feminists
For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.
love movies work
Ah, in work, love and the movies, everything is a fight.
astaire formative ran
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.