Lana Wachowski Quotes

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

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#2. 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.

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

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#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words - they are perspectives

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#7. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#12. 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.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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.

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

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