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.
From Keenen Ivory Wayans
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
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.
I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
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 throw it all in there, Kung Fu, blaxploitation, horror.
I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
In rare instances you have to give up what you thought was a great 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.
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
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