Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

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

— 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

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

— 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

“Slot machines are like crack for old people.”

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— 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 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

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

— 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

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

— 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 put heavy emphasis on the characters.”

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

— 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

“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 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

“We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.”

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

“You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.”

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.

— 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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.”

— Keenen Ivory Wayans