You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
From Shawn Wayans
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.
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.
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.
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.
Now we have to hit them from a different angle.
They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.
We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.
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