Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes About Comedy

Quotes about: Comedy

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Creativity, Creative, Answers

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Fire, Comedy, Calm

• 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.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Movie, Scary, Trying

• 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

  Thinking, Funny Things, Ivory

• I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Character, Comedy, Emphasis

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Cameras, Comedy, Obnoxious

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Sex, Teenage, Giving

• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Good Movie, Comedy, Hard

• 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

  Smile, Character, Laughing

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Comedy

• 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.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Business, Mind, Pressure

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Directors, Sides, Comedy

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Work Out, Comedy, Kind

• I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Laughing, Scary, Comedy

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Angel, Fans, Comedy

• 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

  Fun, Ivory, Comedy

• 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

  Cutting, Hands, Stories

• Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Responsibility, Voice, World

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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.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Brother, Littles, Able

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Comedy, Difficult Times, Film

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