Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 32 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Keenen Ivory Wayans.
Famous Quotes By Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
People who are innately funny are innately disturbed. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
Just making a good movie is hard to do. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
I put heavy emphasis on the characters. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
You can kind of feel when things are going to work out. — Keenen Ivory Wayans
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. — Keenen Ivory Wayans