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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen
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.
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
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.