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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.
-- Shawn Wayans


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


If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
-- Shawn Wayans


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


People are expecting things. In the first one, no one was expecting anything. They were saying, Oh my God, I can't believe these guys are doing this.
-- Shawn Wayans


The people who watched us on TV followed us into films, and that was our core fan-base, and it grew from there.
-- Shawn Wayans


The studios want this from us, but it's not all we do. So the next couple of movies we have planned, we want to do just a regular, funny comedy.
-- 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.
-- Shawn Wayans


They'll say, That's funny, but you can't do that on TV.
-- Shawn Wayans


We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.
-- Shawn Wayans


We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.
-- Shawn Wayans


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


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


We kind of looked at society and turned it into animation. The script is written and now we just have to set it up.
-- Shawn Wayans


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


We make a family environment, it's fun, everybody knows what needs to be done, Keenen oversees the whole thing, we respect him, he respects us.
-- Shawn Wayans


We pay homage to the people who came before, doing satires, like Mel Brooks; we're just carrying the torch.
-- Shawn Wayans


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.
-- Shawn Wayans


We thought it was a rich world, no pun intended, to actually go into and really expose and find the humor in it.
-- Shawn Wayans


Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
-- Shawn Wayans


You have to step up to the plate, and then hit one out of the park.
-- Shawn Wayans


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