There are some things we do for ourselves, but there are some things we do for others. I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn't find anyone like me in the world and it felt like my dreams were foreclosed simply because my gender was less typical than others. If I can be that person for someone else, then the sacrifice of my private civic life may have value, cloud Atlas.

Lana Wachowski

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We are not predators, we are prey.

Lana Wachowski

top-news

So yeah, I'm transgender. And yeah, I've transitioned.

Lana Wachowski

entertainment

My biggest fears were all about losing my family. Once they accepted me, everything else has been a piece of cake, i know that many people are dying to know if I have a surgically constructed vagina or not, but I prefer to keep this information between my wife and me.

Lana Wachowski

top-news

It's all just love, is that too good to be believed?

Lana Wachowski

entertainment

There's directors like John Ford and Christopher Nolan who find a tone and stick with it throughout their careers, we're not like that. We're always looking for the range of what we see in life. That creates a tension between us and our audience because they don't know what to expect. It makes people excited, but it can also make for frustrated consumers.

Lana Wachowski

entertainment

The summer is built around familiarity, many cultural critics who shape awareness for films are obsessed with sequels and derivative material. They wildly crave it. That kind of environment is hostile to originality. It only makes space for derivative material and rejects originality. I think Warner Bros. was uncomfortable with that environment.

Lana Wachowski

entertainment

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

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

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

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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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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