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.

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.

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.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

Why do men fight who were born to be brothers?

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.