Andy Wachowski
Andy Wachowski
Lana Wachowski and Lilly Wachowski are sibling American film directors, screenwriters, and producers. They are both openly transgender women. Known together professionally as The Wachowskis and formerly as The Wachowski Brothers, the pair made their directing debut in 1996 with Bound, and reached fame with their second film The Matrix, a major box office success for which they won the Saturn Award for Best Director. They wrote and directed its two sequels: The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth29 December 1967
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That's where the script came from.
We've always loved going to the movies. Our mom and dad are big movie fans. They'd take us on these movie orgys where we'd see sometimes three movies in a day.
Part of being a filmmaker is also being a craftsman.
After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers.
There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.
'Cloud Atlas' is for everybody. The main character in the movie is humanity.
The way a film can change over the generations... You watch a movie when you're 20 years old, and you see the same movie when you're 35 years old or 40 years old, and something happens. The movie changes because we change as individuals.