56 Quotes by Keenen Ivory Wayans

I opened for Prince at the Houston Coliseum in front of 10,000 people. I said, Hi, and they booed. They didn't want to see me. It can be a tough time.

I put a scare in everybody to make the date even as I kept shooting. But That's the good thing about coming from a low-budget world.

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.

People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.

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'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

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.

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.

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.