Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans, Sr.is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and a member of the Wayans Family of entertainers. He first came to prominence as the host and co-creator of the 1990–1994 Fox sketch comedy series In Living Color. He has produced, directed and/or written a large number of films, starting with Hollywood Shuffle, which he co-wrote, in 1987. A majority of these films have included him and one or more of his brothers and sisters in the cast. One of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 June 1958
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.
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 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.
I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.
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.
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.
You can kind of feel when things are going to work out
We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2
I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.