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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— 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…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— 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…

— 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

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about…

— 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

I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

— 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…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

— 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…

— Keenen Ivory Wayans