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" 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. "

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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. "

Jordan Peele

You

World

Reality

" I'd been taught from an early age that I was in the 'other' category on the standardized tests. You know, I had to go down the checklist - Caucasian, African-American, Latino, Asian-Pacific Islander, and then, you know, at the bottom is other. So, you know, very early on I was taught, in a way, that I was somehow this anomaly. "

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

" 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. "

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

Jordan Peele

Makes

Giving

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming. "

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

" I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be a director since 13, and horror and the suspense thriller were the most powerful genres to me. "

Jordan Peele

Director

Horror

" 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

" I was raised that emotion was a good thing. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" In the Trump era, it's way more obvious extreme racism exists. But there are still a lot of people who think, 'We don't have a racist bone in our bodies.' We have to face the racism in ourselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" Obama was the best thing for black nerds everywhere. Finally we had a role model. Before Obama, we basically had Urkel. "

" '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