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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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Keenen Ivory Wayans
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: June 8
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Television Actor
Television Producer
New York City
New York
Keenen Ivory Desuma Wayans Sr.
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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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People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.
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I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
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Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
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I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2
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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.
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I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
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In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
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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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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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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.
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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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We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
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All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen
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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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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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Just making a good movie is hard to do.
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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.
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