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

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

It's a cautionary tale. V says people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people. That is the essence of the story.

I think the only time people notice something is when you do something horribly bad, you miss action, you miss the key basket or you don't have the significant replay or you just do something so incredibly out of the ordinary — like cut to the ball in the Masters.

The action genre is kind of designed for a young male audience. But we found on 'The Matrix' that we hit the Valhalla of movie making, which is the four quadrant audience - the young male audience, the older male audience, the young female audience and the older female audience.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.