Larry Wachowski's Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A married woman has the same right to control her own body as does an unmarried woman.

A marriage license should not be viewed as a license for a husband to forcibly rape his wife with impunity.

In the past, those who had ideas they wished to communicate to the public had the unquestioned right to disseminate those ideas in an open marketplace, called a mall, we should not abridge that right.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer.