Top 30 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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