Jordan Peele Quotes

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• Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

  Jordan Peele

  Powerful, Real, Issues

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

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• 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

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• Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

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  Blessing, Strange, Sometimes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."

  Jordan Peele

  Validation, Needs, Boundaries

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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• 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

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

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  Nightmare, Horror, Metaphor

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

  Jordan Peele

  Race, People, Conversation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

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

  Jordan Peele

  Animal, Animal Instinct, Instinct

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

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  Slavery, Might, Modern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Racism

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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  Way, Horror, Social

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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. 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

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• I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.

  Jordan Peele

  Growing Up, Differences, African American

  Source: www.npr.org

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

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  Father, Mets, Wells

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

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  Able, Individual, Conjunctions

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

  Jordan Peele

  Emotion, Good Things, Raised

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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• 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

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• 'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

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  Night, Years, America

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

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  Race, Color, Humanity

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What teenagers are ready to laugh at is the misery of other people.

  Jordan Peele

  Teenager, People, Laughing

  "Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele of Key & Peele". Interview With Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2012.

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