Lana Wachowski
Lana 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 Birth21 June 1965
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything.
We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen.
I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
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.
My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.
We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.