Lina Wertmüller Quotes

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

Lina Wertmüller

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.

Lina Wertmüller

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

Lina Wertmüller

Lina Wertmüller

Lina Wertmüller

Born: August 14, 1928

Died: December 9, 2021 (aged 93)

Bio: Lina Wertmüller was an Italian screenwriter and film director. She was the first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Directing Seven Beauties. She was also known for her films The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy and Swept Away.

Known for:

Seven Beauties (1975)
Swept Away (1974)
Love and Anarchy (1973)
The Seduction of Mimi (1972)
The Lizards (1963)

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