Science & Tech Quote by Larry Wachowski

Ambition, hedged with a weary little shrug: that is the whole Wachowski vibe compressed into two sentences. The first clause dangles the lure of scale and novelty - a "science fiction project" not as genre comfort food but as an event, the kind of worldbuilding that demands custom physics, custom mythology, custom everything. Then the phrase that matters: "very expensive". It lands less like a budget note than a quiet description of how Hollywood power actually works. Vision is never the scarce resource; underwriting is.

The second sentence, "Hopefully it will happen", is doing double duty. On the surface it sounds polite, even humble. Underneath, its restraint reads like someone who has learned what happens when you announce something too loudly in an industry that turns big swings into public scorecards. The Wachowskis have lived at both ends of that spectrum: adored for the audacity of The Matrix, punished when later projects asked audiences to follow them somewhere stranger and studios to pay for the trip. So "hopefully" isn't coyness; it's scar tissue.

Contextually, this is the modern blockbuster economy speaking through an auteur. Studios love "original IP" in speeches and hate it on spreadsheets. Sci-fi, especially the Wachowskis' maximalist, sincerity-forward version, is expensive not just in VFX but in the marketing required to explain a new world to people already exhausted by franchises. The quote becomes a small, telling portrait of contemporary filmmaking: creativity waiting in the lobby while finance decides whether imagination is bankable this quarter.