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Keenen Ivory Wayans

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

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Akshay Vasu

"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."

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Akshay Vasu

"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."

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Akshay Vasu

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."

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Akshay Vasu

"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."

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Akshay Vasu

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

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Akshay Vasu

"Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for."

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Akshay Vasu

"To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do."

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Akshay Vasu

"She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the first part of the film I was wearing a 40 pound fat suit, which is very, very uncomfortable. But the worst part was the neck."

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Akshay Vasu

"The film I think was a good film for what it was designed for. It was for kids. Unfortunately the critics slashed it before it even started but that is just the way the cookie crumbles."

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Akshay Vasu

"You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base."

Angels

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"You can kind of feel when things are going to work out."

Work

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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."

Business

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all."

Fire

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I enjoy the character interplay. Sometimes the audience is not laughing, but smiling, and that is almost just as good because it keeps them ready to laugh."

Character

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great scene."

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

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"Slot machines are like crack for old people."

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