The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money.

You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.