There is something transformative if you’re a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are. Jordan Peele Read Quote
Thelma and Louise’ was a pretty important film for me and still is. It’s a social film about many things – gender, freedom – and it puts someone like me into the place of these protagonists. Watching that movie, you are living through the eyes of these women. Jordan Peele Read Quote
Little Haley Joel Osment in ‘The Sixth Sense’ can see dead people. Well, I can see racist people. Jordan Peele Read Quote
I want to produce untapped voices, find people and help them get their platform. Jordan Peele Read Quote
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. Jordan Peele Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Now that the black experience isn’t viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs. Jordan Peele Read Quote
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. Jordan Peele Read Quote
