Lina Wertmuller famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Suicide #Suicidal #Winter
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.
-- Lina Wertmuller

#Freedom #Real #Dirty
To love is to be engaged is to work is to be interested is to create.
-- Lina Wertmuller

#Creativity #Love Is
The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.
-- Lina Wertmuller

#Movie #People #Different
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

#Art #Passion #Thinking
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

#Strong #People #Victory
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

#Art #Drama #Sarcasm
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

#People #Understanding #Special

The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing with theirs
Kind of wish I was dead. Maybe, I'll blow my brains out, mama, or maybe I'll go bowling.
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.
They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Nine men in ten are would be suicides.
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily, and loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight, and people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted, unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers, unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea, and work will be simple and swift as a seagull flying, and play will be casual and quiet as a seagull settling, and the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder or care or notice, and people will smile without reason, even in winter, even in the rain.
In winter, some voices are like coats.
The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
Although it was the middle of winter, I finally realized that, within me, summer was inextinguishable.

Lina Wertmuller famous quotes

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