All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

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 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

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

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
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 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

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

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

I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

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

Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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

Slot machines are like crack for old people.
Keenen Ivory Wayans