Quotes by Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele

‘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.

America

Night

Years

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself – he said something like that. But he’s – he is a close talker. He’s a touchy guy.

Guy

Mets

Said

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know – in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

Brother

Father

Way

Anyone who’s really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, ‘Let’s throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.’ That’s how we do it. At a certain point, we’re cutting scripts that we love.

Cutting

Philosophy

Wall

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.

Animal

Race

Thinking

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.

Horror

Social

Way

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

Animal

Animal Instinct

Instinct

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

Father

Mets

Wells

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.”.

Brain

Giving

Together

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn’t really explore and couldn’t show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

Firsts

Leader

Thinking

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Able

African American

Age

America

Animal

Animal Instinct

Asian

Beautiful

Black

Blessing

Brain

Brother

Color

Comedian

Conjunctions

Conversation

Cutting

Emotion

Father

Firsts

Giving

Good Things

Guy

Helping

Hollywood

Horror

Humanity

Individual

Instinct

Issues

Kids

Leader

Men

Metaphor

Mets

Might

Modern

Monsters

Names

Nerd

Night

Nightmare

People

Philosophy

Powerful

President

Race

Racism

Raised

Real

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Quotes by Jordan Peele

Jordan Peele

‘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.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself – he said something like that. But he’s – he is a close talker. He’s a touchy guy.

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know – in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

Anyone who’s really utilized collaboration has a philosophy like, ‘Let’s throw it all against the wall and see what sticks.’ That’s how we do it. At a certain point, we’re cutting scripts that we love.

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.

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

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

I think that is also something he [Barack Obama], in the beginning of his presidency, he couldn’t really explore and couldn’t show. He had to be almost a one-dimensional, stoic leader during that first election.

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