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

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Donna Grant

"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Looper is another great film."

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Donna Grant

"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

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Donna Grant

"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."

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Donna Grant

"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."

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Donna Grant

"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."

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Donna Grant

"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."

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Donna Grant

"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."

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Donna Grant

"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."

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

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"I throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror."

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming."

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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."

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

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody."

Movies

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Keenen Ivory Wayans
"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."

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

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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."

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