 Film producer Joel Silver has said that after working as scriptwriters on Assassins , the Wachowskis made Bound as an " audition piece " to prove that they knew what to do on a movie set . Conversely , Lana Wachowski has said Joel " made that up . " The Wachowskis themselves claim they " decided simply to focus on making their own directorial debut . " They had the idea to write a story about how one might see a woman on the street and make assumptions about her sexuality , but how those assumptions might be wrong . They wanted to play with stereotypes and make an entertaining film that contained sex and violence , because those are the kinds of films that they like to watch . Seeing film noir as a genre within which they could tell a contained story and twist conventions , they described Billy Wilder as a big influence . 
