Lina Wertmuller

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.

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.

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.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent the fighting population.