Larry Wachowski Quotes

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.
Larry Wachowski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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