Carrie-Anne Moss Quotes

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

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.

My goal is to spread ideas. Trends always start at the top.

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

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

We just decided to pick the date 'The Matrix' opened in most of the world. At the end of the day, it worked out really great because the world seems to have got to a place where I think the movie is even more relevant now than it was several months ago.

I remember leaving the first 'Matrix' movie feeling completely radicalized, completely changed. I think we all, from our ordinary lives, like to think about putting ourselves into these extraordinary situations and wonder how we'd respond.

I do like sci-fi, absolutely. I've watched everything from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to 'Terminator' - the list goes on and on.

You cannot overstate, I don't think, the impact of a show like 'Glee' on a generation.

I loved 'The Matrix,' so when they asked me to do some animation relating to it, I was thrilled.

I watched the German version of 'Baron Munchasen' and Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' at a young age. 'Star Wars' was also a huge thing when I was a kid.

What irritates me about sci-fi is that it got hijacked by video games and also became so high-concept it was all about ideas and gadgets and technology and nothing about the human experience.

Gosh, for me, when I was 15 or 16 years old, I was just starting to understand ideas and film and things like that. And then, you go see a movie like 'The Matrix' that absolutely blows your mind. It's not just trying to entertain you, but it's also trying to explore something about human nature and ask some really deep questions.

I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

The idea of going on a spiritual journey is really part of the DNA of India itself.

Art is art. Television has elevated itself, in certain ways, but it's always pushed people's consciousness.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

I always think, quite frankly that pop culture is a lot more important than a lot of people realize.

I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions...

One thing is certain: the riddle of mind, long a topic for philosophers, has taken on new urgency. Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to the Victorians--threat and obsession, taboo and fascination.

That you carry yourself forward and experience the myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forward and experience themselves is awakening