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" 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. "

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" The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I talk about movies like 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Stepford Wives,' I really noticed that these movies were able to address fears surround the women's lib movement in a way that was engaging, not preachy, but fun. "

" I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out. "

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can track elections by who was playing that president on 'SNL' at that time. There's the theory that the more likable or charismatic impression would help get the president elected. "

" The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture. "

" There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are. "

" I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 define 'social thriller' as thriller/horror movies where the ultimate villain is society. "

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

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

" I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times. "

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

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