Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes

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• 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

  Movie, Money, Mind

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

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  Creativity, Creative, Answers

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

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  Fire, Comedy, Calm

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• 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.

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  Art, Trying, Stuff

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Voice, World

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  People, Disturbed

  "Keenen Ivory Wayans To Oprah: Funny People Are ‘Innately Disturbed’". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2013.

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• All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen

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  Cameras, Needs, Make Things Happen

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• Slot machines are like crack for old people.

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  People, Cracks, Machines

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

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  Work Out, Comedy, Kind

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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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  Two, Phases, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Art, Comedian, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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  Angel, Fans, Comedy

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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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  Brother, Littles, Able

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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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  Thinking, Funny Things, Ivory

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

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  Sex, Teenage, Giving

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• I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

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  Character, Comedy, Emphasis

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• 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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  Advocating, Bigs, Harder

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• 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.

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  Smile, Character, Laughing

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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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  Fun, Ivory, Comedy

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

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Comedy

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• Just making a good movie is hard to do.

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  Good Movie, Comedy, Hard

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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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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  Cameras, Comedy, Obnoxious

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

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  Directors, Sides, Comedy

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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.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Business, Mind, Pressure

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