Lana Wachowski

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

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.

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.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.