Keenen Ivory Wayans's Quotes

It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good.

You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.

I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.