Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

• 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.

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• You just can’t make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• This is really a difficult time to be in films.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Slot machines are like crack for old people.

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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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• It’s the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of s*x jokes and gross humour.

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

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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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• I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.

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

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

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Keenen Ivory Wayans (29)

Birth:	8th June, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Screenwriter

About

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sr is an American actor, comedian, director and writer known as the host and creator of the Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. Wayans is the director/creator of Scary Movie, the highest grossing movie ever directed by an African American. He briefly hosted his own show called The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show.

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