Keenen Ivory Wayans

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.

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 always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2.

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.

My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.

I put the cameras on her and told her to be obnoxious as she could possibly could be. She was.

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.

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.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

This is really a difficult time to be in films.

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

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.