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Jordan Peele is an American actor, screenwriter, director, and comedian. He is known for his work on 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Key & Peele,' and later transitioned to film, winning the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his work on 'Get Out'.

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“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.”

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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.”

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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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“With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.”

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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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“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.”

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“The audience's imagination will do a better, more personalized version of the horror than you can actually paint. So that just, you know, with something like "The Blair Witch Project," which is, you know, whatever, it's 89 minutes of people running through the woods and one minute of, you know, a guy standing in a corner.”

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“Certainly, black horror movie fans have, you know, been particularly vocal. I mean, there's the whole Eddie Murphy routine about, you know, black people in a horror movie wouldn't last very long. Right? They just walk in - you hear get out. Too bad we can't stay, baby.”

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Born: February 21, 1979
Known for: Actor
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