And yet, The Wachowski Brothers ended up directing. Yes, The Matrix wasn't rewritten. Usually if you direct your material, then you don't hire someone else to rewrite you. Well, it's a combination of a lot of things. They really are talented.
Many people get a lot of places by accident.
These guys are tremendous storytellers and tremendous visual storytellers. When you talk to them, you just see that they know what a movie is and how to make one. That's number one. Number two, they're good writers. They actually had a three-picture deal with Warner Bros. and although they stopped writing on Assassins , it was clear, even to Warner Bros., that it was just a difference of opinion.