Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

You never want to be the whitest-sounding black guy in a room.

— Jordan Peele

I want to produce untapped voices, find people and help them get their platform.

— Jordan Peele

It's very uncomfortable to talk about race. It often devolves before it begins.

— Jordan Peele

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

I want to believe in ghosts. I love ghost stories.

— Jordan Peele

You boil down your influences to a soup, and it all informs you.

— Jordan Peele

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,…

— Jordan Peele

I've always thought of myself as an African-American comedian, African-American man, everything.

— Jordan Peele

Nobody wants to see sketch comedy that's the same sketch they've seen time and time again, or that's just a rehash of…

— Jordan Peele

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or…

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you…

— Jordan Peele

As a black man, sometimes you can't tell if what you're seeing has underlying bigotry, or it's a normal conversation and you're…

— Jordan Peele

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the…

— Jordan Peele

Racism comes in many different forms. Sometimes it's subtle, and sometimes it's overt. Sometimes it's violent, and sometimes it's harmless, but it's…

— Jordan Peele

Part of the desire to live in a post-racial world includes the desire not to have to talk about racism, which includes…

— Jordan Peele

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking…

— Jordan Peele

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want…

— Jordan Peele

I wanted to be Steven Spielberg, Tim Burton, Stanley Kubrick, David Cronenberg, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and Hitchcock. I'd wanted to be…

— Jordan Peele

I love dipping into worlds at a fast and furious pace. A little glimpse allows the audience to put together the rest…

— Jordan Peele

You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it…

— Jordan Peele

Since we were renamed, and now it feels like 80 percent of the African-American population has the name Washington or Jefferson or…

— Jordan Peele

Back when we were Neanderthals or whatever, we evolved to think along tribal lines. Survival was based on this idea of who…

— Jordan Peele

Racism is within each and every one of us.

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

As far as writing and directing, I'm very focused on the thriller genre.

— Jordan Peele

I was raised that emotion was a good thing.

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

Black people who want to do comedy go into standup, where our heroes opened a lot of doors. Improv doesn't have a…

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele

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

— Jordan Peele