56 Quotes by Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

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 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 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.

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.

You can kind of feel when things are going to work out.

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.

You just can’t make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.