Sherman's March (1985)

Wini Wood: Self

Quotes 

• Ross McElwee : In another way in which there were many failures, all of my love relationships have been a disasters - which could be, said to be the equivalent, you know, of trying to start of lumber business or a real estate business that failed terribly. I mean, that's also...

  Wini : Ross! There's no analogy between a real estate business and a love affair.

• Wini : I told you that for a very long time I believed that the only important things in life were linguistics and sex. Its easy to see how one would get involved with a Linguistics professor.

  Ross McElwee : Do you still believe that?

  Wini : Well, I think there are other important things. I'm very fond of this cow.

• Wini : Was the March to the Sea an attempt to show people that he wasn't a failure?

  Ross McElwee : I think probably so! Until the War Between the States came along, Sherman was a failure in all modes of public life. He tried to start, I think, a lumber business, a real estate business, an insurance business, and all of them failed. He was a terrible businessman.

• Ross McElwee : Don't you see the resemblance between me and Sherman?

  Wini : Physical resemblance, you mean?

  Ross McElwee : In that, he had a red beard and I have a red beard.

  Wini : Yeah, well, that's true. That's a - bit similarity.

• Ross McElwee : In this hippy life style...

  Wini : My hippy life style?

  Ross McElwee : It is a hippy life style.

  Wini : No, it's not!