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Keenen Ivory Wayans

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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.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#answer #because #big #big budget #bigger

I put heavy emphasis on the characters.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#emphasis #heavy #i #put

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


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#could #her #i #obnoxious #possibly

I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#i #kung #kung fu #throw

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


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#funny #have fun #i #like #more

In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#great #instances #rare #rare instances #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.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#cut #down #good #holding #out

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


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#give #gross #humour #jokes #lots

Just making a good movie is hard to do.


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#good movie #hard #just #making #movie

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


— Keenen Ivory Wayans


#brothers #control #focused #keep #little






About Keenen Ivory Wayans






Did you know about Keenen Ivory Wayans?

Biography
Wayans was born in New York City son of Howell Wayans a supermarket manager and his wife Elvira a homemaker and social worker. In Living Color


Characters
Death Row Comic (Prison Cable Access)
Frenchie
Ice Man (Homeboy Shopping Network)
Tom Brothers (The Brothers Brothers)
Wes (Wes & Less)


Impressions
Arsenio Hall
Billy Dee Williams
Don Cornelius
Jesse Jackson
Little Richard
Mike Tyson
Marsha Warfield
Milli (Rob Pilatus) of Milli Vanilli
Morgan Freeman (such as Hoke Colburn from Driving Miss Daisy Principal Joe Clark from Lean On Me)
Rick James
Steve Harvey
Carl Weathers (as Apollo Creed)


Filmography


Writing/producing/directing credits
Hollywood Shuffle (1987) (and writer)
Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987) (producer)
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) (writer and director)
In Living Color (1990–1992; 2013- ) (executive producer director and creator/writer)
The Five Heartbeats (1991) (writer)
A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994) (writer and director)
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) (producer)
The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show (1997) (executive producer)
Most Wanted (1997) (executive producer and writer)
Scary Movie (2000) (actor and director)
Scary Movie 2 (2001) (director and actor)
White Chicks (2004) (producer director)
Little Man (2006) (producer writer director)
Dance Flick (2009) (producer writer)
It Takes A Village (TBA) (writer director). Personal life
Wayans is a vegetarian and a supporter of the animal rights group PETA.

He briefly hosted his own show called The Keenen Ivory Wayans Show. Keenen Ivory Wayans (born June 8 1958) is an American actor comedian director and writer known as the host and creator of the FOX sketch comedy series In Living Color.

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