64 Quotes by Jordan Peele

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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