Lina Wertmuller Quotes
Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That's why I love it so much.
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.
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Sometimes we make films just for our people, and it doesn't reach to anyone.
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Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.
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Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.
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Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric or fail of their sanity.
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We discount the physical, when, in fact, much of life is physical. People's personalities are partly formed by, or in response to, how they take up space; the physical mask has some relation, howsoever obscure, to the mental work happening underneath.
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I think for me, the thing that gets me in the right mindset is just watching something funny, something light, something that makes me feel good. Regardless of what it is - when you feel good, when you feel upbeat, creativity flows!
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The trust we build over the years if of tremendous help to me when I start in a new project and need to find associates.
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
