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

- Lina Wertmuller

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 hist…

- Lina Wertmuller

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,…

- Lina Wertmuller

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, …

- Lina Wertmuller

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, s…

- Lina Wertmuller

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

- Lina Wertmuller

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

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

- Lina Wertmuller