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" 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. "

Jordan Peele

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People

Opportunity

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" 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. "

" I'll say this: The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together. "

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

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" 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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes a false perception that if you are talking about race, then you're perpetuating the notion of race. I reject that. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 was raised that emotion was a good thing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Little Haley Joel Osment in 'The Sixth Sense' can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people. "