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.
Creativity is the answer. I always prefer the creative solution to an expensive solution.
Great art is not instant. It comes from experience, it comes from a place within. If you're trying to generate material, then you're going to generate stuff. It's not going to be great, it's just going to be stuff.
I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.
People who are innately funny are innately disturbed.
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen
Slot machines are like crack for old people.
Comedy has a responsibility to be a voice of society, so within that, there's always going to be those that talk about those subjects and things that are going on in the world.
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.
You can kind of feel when things are going to work out
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.
A comedian, or any artist, needs their time to develop what they are doing. There has to be some respect for the art form and when it's allowed to be seen.
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.
Just making a good movie is hard to do.
We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.
My brothers can be a little out of control sometimes and so somebody has to be able to keep them focused.
It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
I put heavy emphasis on the characters.
You never really know until you put the movie in front of an audience. I am a big advocate of screenings, which are getting harder and harder to do nowadays.
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.
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.
I think that if you, as a comedian, are trying to be in people's face, then you've got to come up with new stuff every year. We're in a mass consumption phase where people take things for granted and want things to be instant when these are not things that can be instant.
You do what it takes. It was on me to deliver.
I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2
