Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

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

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

People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

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.

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

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.

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

Slot machines are like crack for old people.

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.