Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes
An American actor, comedian, director and writer.
(1958 - )
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All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
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Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
[Creativity]
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I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.
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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.
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I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.
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I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
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I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
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I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
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I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
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I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
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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.
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I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
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I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
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I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
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In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
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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.
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It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
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Slot machines are like crack for old people.
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