Lana Wachowski Quotes

Lana Wachowski

Profession : Director

Birth : June 21, 1965

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

Lana Wachowski

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

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

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

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

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

Lana Wachowski

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

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

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

Lana Wachowski

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

Lana Wachowski