Lana Wachowski Quotes & Sayings

“With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.”

“I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.”

“We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.”

“If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.”

“My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.”

“Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.”

“I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.”

“Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.”

“We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.”

“We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.”