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Shawn Wayans

"We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels."

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Akiroq Brost

"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."

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Akiroq Brost

"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."

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Akiroq Brost

"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."

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Akiroq Brost

"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."

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Akiroq Brost

"Film, I think, is my medium."

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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."

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Akiroq Brost

"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."

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Shawn Wayans
"We like writing with each other; it's fun."

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Shawn Wayans
"A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character."

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Shawn Wayans
"We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross."

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Shawn Wayans
"We did a lot of press for the last film and now for this one. We don't rest on our laurels."

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Shawn Wayans
"Now we have to hit them from a different angle."

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Shawn Wayans
"For Scary Movie 2, we had a due date and had to work fast. And though there's a lot of pressure, as artists, we just block it out. So really, the pressure comes from us. That's how the first movie happened. There was no outside pressure: we wanted to hit the audience hard."

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Shawn Wayans
"I knew when I was 6. I just knew it; I didn't care about nothing else. If I didn't make it in this world, I would probably be homeless. I gave myself that little to fall back on."

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Shawn Wayans
"There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn't able to do."

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Shawn Wayans
"You lose your privacy, and sometimes, people don't see you as human."

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Shawn Wayans
"Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up."

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