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

'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity. — Lilly 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

We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day. — Lilly 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

Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon - that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Spoon boy: There is no spoon. — The Wachowski Brothers

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

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

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get. — Lilly Wachowski

After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers. — Lilly Wachowski

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

I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson ... I love American movies, but I love European movies, too, and I want to do both. — Monica Bellucci

The way a film can change over the generations ... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals. — Lilly Wachowski

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

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

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

I did not imagine myself working with Luis Estrada or with the Wachowski Brothers and these are things that have happened to me and I am very satisfied. I hope to keep on finding interesting projects and interesting stories. — Alfonso Herrera

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

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

Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman. — Lilly 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

They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that. — Daryl Hannah

...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

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time. — Lilly 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

You take the blue pill, the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. — Andy Wachowski