Lana Wachowski Quotes & Sayings

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. — Lana Wachowski

so that this world that we imagine in this room might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds previously unimaginable. — Lana Wachowski

Murdered by a kind of fear that seeks to obliterate any evidence that the world is different from the way they want to see it, from the way they want to believe it to be. — Lana Wachowski

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. — Lana Wachowski

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. — Lana Wachowski

...the weeping, the tears of the hosts, whose sympathy underscores the inherent tragedy of my life as a transgender person, and this moment fulfilling the cathartic arc of rejection to acceptance, without ever interrogating the pathology of a society that refuses to acknowledge the spectrum of gender in the exact same blind way they refuse to see a spectrum of race or sexuality. — Lana Wachowski

With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext. — Lana Wachowski

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. — Lana Wachowski

There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen. — Lana Wachowski

What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain. — Lana Wachowski

I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything. — Lana Wachowski

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence. — Lana Wachowski

We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient. — Lana Wachowski

His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives — Lana Wachowski

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it. — Lana Wachowski

We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world. — Lana Wachowski

My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place. — Lana Wachowski