Lina Wertmuller Quotes

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

The most important thing when you do a movie is that you find an audience that really understands what you want to do and is really supportive of it.

I suppose I like to think of myself as a film-maker.

I think I stumbled upon a voice people associate with me with 'The Deal.'

I really love making movies. I just have this yearning in my stomach to go back and somehow subversively screw up television a little bit again.

Make movies that you want to go and watch in a theatre.

I just make movies and hope people appreciate them.

I want to go make an original movie. It's all very personal, but I want to define myself a little bit more as a filmmaker and hone my craft.

It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

All the director wants is their idea of the movie to be believed in.

We love making movies. We got into the business to make movies. At the end of the day, whether you're doing a low budget film or a big budget film, you want it to do well and you want people to see it. That's the whole point. You want to put some kind of message in it.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

When you're working on a movie you always hope that people will go for it and enjoy what you're doing.

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.

Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.

For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.

It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work. If you don't really love it, then it ain't worth it.

I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.

I make a movie because it's something that inspires me.

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and having an idea and watching the idea be added to and at the end you have this thing.