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All Quotes by author - Keenen Ivory Wayans
" All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen. "
Need
Camera
Happen
" Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution. "
Creativity
Solution
Always
" I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2. "
Like
Laugh
Big
" 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. "
Laugh
Good
Enjoy
" 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. "
Character
Process
Live
" I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process. "
Both Sides
Sides
Process
" I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. "
Like
Funny
Fun
" I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all. "
Just
Calm
Intimidating
" I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker. "
Have Fun
Like
Funny
" In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene. "
Give
Great
Rare
" 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. "
Big
Filmmaking
Suit
" I put heavy emphasis on the characters. "
Emphasis
Put
Characters
" I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was. "
Obnoxious
She
Put
" 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. "
Doing
You
Funny
" I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror. "
Kung
Horror
Throw
" 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. "
Rare
You
Story
" It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour. "
Jokes
University
Crowd
" Just making a good movie is hard to do. "
Hard
Good Movie
Making
" My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused. "
Focused
Control
Sometimes
" Slot machines are like crack for old people. "
Old
Machines
Old People
" 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. "
Up
Business
Focused
" 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. "
First
Two
You
" This is really a difficult time to be in films. "
Films
Difficult
Time
" We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base. "
Impossible
Angels
Because
" 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. "
Movies
Group
Find
" 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. "
Now
Best
Just
" You can kind of feel when things are going to work out. "
Kind
Work
Things
" You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver. "
Takes
Deliver
Me
" You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films. "
Good
Now
Time
" 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. "
Know
Big
Audience
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