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I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

'The Matrix' is a movie that is all about glamour. I could do a whole talk on 'The Matrix' and glamour. It was criticized for glamorizing violence, because, look - sunglasses and those long coats, and, of course, they could walk up walls and do all these kinds of things that are impossible in the real world.

'Alien' asked ground-breaking questions about eco-politics and female empowerment. 'The Matrix' delved deeper into the concept of perception versus reality than perhaps any other film I know. But for some reason, we tend not to remember the significance of their writing.

The Matrix itself is not some external evil, but rather an outcome of our own error, our karmic payoff of past actions. Not merely illusion, it is an allusion to a founding myth of our culture.

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

A secret is a secret in my mind.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.