Latest Jordan Peele Quotes from Interviews

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• I love dipping into worlds at a fast and furious pace. A little glimpse allows the audience to put together the rest of that world in their brain. I love sketches that require the audience to piece together the comedic engine themselves. Give them all the information but not tell them what the scene is about so they can have that eureka moment of, "Oh my God, he's only used to the way urban students pronounce their names. That's what's going on here.".

  Jordan Peele

  Giving, Brain, Together

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

• Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.

  Jordan Peele

  Baby, Mean, Long

  Source: www.npr.org

• The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.

  Jordan Peele

  Running, People, Imagination

  Source: www.npr.org

• A part of being black in America and, you know, I presume being any minority, is constantly being told that we're being too aware of race somehow, we're obsessed with it or we're seeing racism where there just isn't racism.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, America, Racism

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Jordan Peele

  African American, Age, Asian

  Source: www.npr.org

• If it's comedy, you taken an absurd comedic notion and you apply it to reality. If it's horror, if it's a thriller, you do the same thing.

  Jordan Peele

  Taken, Reality, Comedy

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

• I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

  Jordan Peele

  Commitment, Racism, Looks

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

• I don't think that humans are, in our nature, we're evil or anything like that. But I do think there's a demon in our DNA, in our tribal subconscious that affects the way we work and we operate as a group.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Dna, Evil

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

• For me, the social thriller is the thriller in which the fears, the horrors, and the thrills are coming from society. They're coming from the way humans interact.

  Jordan Peele

  Way, Horror, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Monsters, Awful

  "‘Get Out’ dials up the scary side of race in America". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. March 6, 2017.

• The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.

  Jordan Peele

  Together, Monsters, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

  Jordan Peele

  Men, Biting, Figuring It

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• 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. My style of filmmaking happens to be give the audience what they know they don't want, but they want. Ultimately I have to write and direct in a way that let's just say, you don't want to regret making a choice.

  Jordan Peele

  Regret, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

  Jordan Peele

  Blessing, Strange, Sometimes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

  Jordan Peele

  Want, Comedy, Horror

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

• How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

  Jordan Peele

  Animal, Animal Instinct, Instinct

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• We can convince ourselves to do things in conjunction with one another that we wouldn't have been able to do as an individual.

  Jordan Peele

  Able, Individual, Conjunctions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• When people get together, we are capable of the most beautiful, amazing things. But we are also capable of genocide.

  Jordan Peele

  Beautiful, People, Together

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.

  Jordan Peele

  Voice, White, Hollywood

  "'Get Out' Is the Horror Flick America Needs Right Now". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2017.

• With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

  Jordan Peele

  Nightmare, Horror, Metaphor

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• There might be some sinister modern form of slavery going on.

  Jordan Peele

  Slavery, Might, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

  Jordan Peele

  Responsibility, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Color, People

  ""Get Out' Is the Horror Flick America Needs Right Now". Interview With Edwin Rios, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2017.

• Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I've been in many situations where I've felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, Color, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who are we and who are the others who will come and take our resources. I think it's an animal and a human thing that we all see in terms of us vs. them, and race is a very easy way to separate who is us and who is them.

  Jordan Peele

  Thinking, Animal, Race

  Source: www.motherjones.com