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" I think, before Obama, there was a glass ceiling. That's a big change. As a president, I think he was the best. I felt like I could trust his judgment, and he'd take a measured, empathetic approach. I don't see there ever being another Barack Obama. "

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" Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's definitely here. It's something that I think we're all guilty of, and we just have to make sure that we deal with our own personal racism in the right way. "

Jordan Peele

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Think

" African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope. "

" Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of that thing. "

" I want to produce untapped voices, find people and help them get their platform. "

" Any time I claimed to be white, that would be unacceptable. It just doesn't make sense in people's minds. If I'm white, how can I walk through a department store and still have people scared that I'm going to rob them? Which, that can still happen. "

" I'm a bigger fan of my directing than in acting. Acting is just harder. You know, not harder, per se, because directing is the hardest thing I've ever had to do. But it's harder to enjoy my work as an actor, you know. "

" I'm a true believer in story. I think when you just tell people to think, people tend to get resistant and defensive and feel like you're accusing them of not thinking. "

" There's something kind of horrific about milk. Think about it! Think about what we're doing. Milk is kind of gross. "

" I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories. "

" We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art. "

" You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else. "

" It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life. "

Jordan Peele

Comedy

Life

" Part of what horror is, is taking risks and going somewhere that people think you're not supposed to be able to go, in the name of expressing real-life fears. "

" Each one of my movies is going to be about one of these different social demons. The first one, being 'Get Out,' is about race and neglect and marginalization. "

" I am a huge fan of Quentin Tarantino, who takes time to figure out what his next movie is. "

" New York is about as cosmopolitan as it gets. It's a fairly mixed and woke town, so there weren't a lot of situations growing up where I felt like the outsider or the alien. "

" You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room. "

" 'Thelma and Louise' was a pretty important film for me and still is. It's a social film about many things - gender, freedom - and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women. "

Jordan Peele

Place

Women

" As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre. "

" I think the majority of police are really good people and really good at their jobs, but that doesn't change the fact that with any interaction I have with them, I'm viewed as a potential threat. "

" It was definitely during the Obama administration that talking about racism, or calling it out, suddenly seemed taboo. It seemed like talking about race was somehow summoning the evil of racism. "

Jordan Peele

Evil

Racism

" You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you. "

" When you start making a movie, people want to know: Who's the star power? And very early, I realized there's not a lot of 26-year-old black actors who have been given the opportunity to be the lead of a film. It's, like, Michael B. Jordan, and then we're done. "

" I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night. "

Jordan Peele

Life

Demons

" I think the lesson is that when you give black voices a platform and the opportunity to tell our story, we will tell good stories just like anybody else. "

" As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're being paranoid. That dynamic in itself is unsettling. I admit sometimes I see race and racism when its not there. "

" I find campfire stories and urban legends are kind of the bread and butter that inspires a lot of people who are making horror and thriller. There is a nugget of truth behind these sort of cautionary tales. "

" The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that. "

" Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs. "

" As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen. "