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Jordan Peele

lines on the record: 33
first: 2018-02-28
most recent: 2018-02-28
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Part of it feels unnatural. Part of it makes you grapple with this idea of like, okay, don't get, don't watch your own jump shot here. Don't drink your own Kool-Aid. And so it's hard when there's this”
2018-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Jordan Peele: Can Film Change Our Culture? · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's easier sometimes than it is others. Because there's a bit of attention that almost feels unnatural. Do you know anything about that?”
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“I don't know. I don't know. It's hard because you, as you know, it's like you're kind of preparing what to say, but you're also trying to like.”
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“Absolutely. It's a piece of art that's made with a huge collaboration of artists. It is a collective experience. I think the theater experience is a collective experience. A bunch of strangers come into a room, sit down, and leave with this common experience. And I think it builds empathy. Any film is a journey through someone else's eyes. And feeling the emotion of that journey. So, yeah, I think there's a reason story is the most powerful weapon for change. I mean, I hesitate to call it a weapon, but I do think of story as a weapon against the violence, against the bigotry, against hatred, against the policies. And it goes back to the Bible.”
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“The acting route was this sort of immediate response from the audience, and I felt like I was doing it well. But I do think a part of it was I internalized the sort of lack of inclusion in the director space and felt like it's hard for any director to get to make a movie. And for a black director to convince people to give you money to make a movie.”
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“Yeah, I don't think I consciously was grappling with it that way at the time. But in retrospect, I wanted to be a director so bad 12, 13, this is all I wanted. Like I said, I had that moment with Whoopie where I felt, okay, let's listen to that. And yet I moved away from my dream and consciously made a decision. I think part of it was just good old fashioned fear of failure.”
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“I don't know. So Malia was in the screening when we screened it at Sundance. I haven't heard from Obama. I imagine he would say, you know, I would have voted for me a third term too. I would love to. I did get to meet him because of Kean Peel. And Keegan, as Luther got to accompany him at the”
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“Now that you mention it I don't know. You know, I will continue to make the movies that I want to see first. If I want to see it, I have to have trust that other people will. And if they don't, I have to accept that that's what it is. Yeah. But for me, the biggest reward of all of this for me, besides this right here, Has always been the fact that I get to make another movie. So I don't want to let that become an unpleasant experience because this one was so successful.”
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“Yeah, I agree. And the climate that I wrote the movie in was the Obama era. And the movie was meant to address this post racial lie, this idea that we're past racism. And so I wanted the ending to be a dose of sobering reality as to what would happen at the end of this movie. By the time the movie was ready to go, and I had that ending shot, there had been more conversation about race. There had been Black Lives Matter was bringing attention to racial injustice. Trump was starting to roll. And so it really felt like people needed a hero and needed for me to help fulfill the escapism of the movie as well.”
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“He was the person who, when he came in, it was like, that's the guy I wrote. And you can tell. You can feel it. He is us in the movie But the original ending he shows up after not showing up and saving his friend. And he's trying to solve the case. Sort of retroactive.”
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“Okay, wonderful. Well done, well done. The original ending for the movie that we shot was that the cops show up. And it's the cops. And they take him, and it goes to six months later, he's in prison. His friend Rod, who's been with him the whole movie.”
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“For all the reasons why we haven't seen this movie before, all the little checkpoints, the racist notion that a movie targeted to an African-American audience with violence in it could incite violence. The fact that there really aren't very many white characters that aren't evil. In the movie, I thought could be a reason that this wouldn't make the final release.”
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“Yeah, you know, every step of the way I held this idea that there's a good chance someone's gonna step in and say, nope, you can't do that.”
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“Sometimes I get, yeah, it made me wonder have Your Barack Obama impression is really good. I'm like, you just did it. No, but there's a little introspection going on. But I think the power of story and why this movie ended up being important is because when you have an actor like Daniel, when you have a character that a protagonist that the audience becomes the protagonist. So this was a way for, I think, a lot of white people to experience the world through the black perspective. And white people watching the movie don't identify with the white people in the movie. You identify with Chris.”
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“Yeah, and this is, I think, part of the experience I had never seen portrayed in film. And there was this feeling I had while coming up with this that all I know is there are horror movies that explore every real world horror. Except this one, save for maybe Knight of the Living Dead, which does it in a very allegorical way. But the fact that the modern African-American experience and our fears and our horrors and our uncomfortable interactions in the form of that expression to me just meant there's a missing piece of the conversation here. And I think what happened with this scene where the microaggressions are kind of the horror and the creepy thing. Is black people would say, look, hey, finally. Thank you. That's my life story.”
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“There's a connection I think there is a sort of deficit or a lack of images in pop culture where black men are allowed to be vulnerable. Where we're allowed to be afraid, where we're allowed to show fear. And that, the fact that everyone latched onto that to me is also connected to the fact that our fears, the injustices surrounding blackness in America aren't being heard. They're being silenced by a sort of systemic failure.”
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“The one tier Which I think is connected actually that moment of Denzel Washington with this defiant tear is, I think, connected to the same reason the now iconic image of Daniel has resonated.”
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“I'm a black man. The first movie I ever saw in a theater, very young, was a revival of showboat. And so my father wasn't around. A good amount of my African-American experiences growing up were through cinema. So the movie Glory. Was very meaningful to me.”
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“Well, you know, it's, but the whole thing made me, you know, set me on this trajectory of exploring and examining what it means to be black in this country.”
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“And what the world's trying to figure you out The world is trying to put you in a box They're literally asking you to check on the standardized test when you're six years old. What are you? White, African American, other. So in the beginning of my school tenure, I put other down. As I grew up and as I got older in elementary school, I began to identify as African-American, which was comforting to me because it's what I am. I'm a black man. Yeah.”
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“Yeah, you know, I had a really amazing support system, amazing family, single mother who is here tonight somewhere. I don't know. Oh, there she is. Okay So, I got so much support. At the same time, I did feel like an outsider. I identified with the outsider. It's hard to know exactly why, but I think part of it is connected to racial identity. You know, I'm mixed. And there's part of the mixed experience, especially early on, it's kind of confusing.”
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“You can do it. And I internalized that. And when the news came that I was nominated, I immediately thought of that. In that moment, and I thought of this is now about all the people out there who this is sending that same message to.”
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“It's remarkable, and the moment the moments after I realized this was really happening, I had this overwhelming sense of that this thing is bigger than me. And this is bigger than this work. And when I was maybe 12 years old or something, so Whoopi Goldberg. For Ghost, best supporting actress. And I remember watching that at home. Fantastic performance. And feeling for many reasons going into it feeling like she was kind of the underdog was a comedic role. And I remember she got on stage accepting her award and said something to the effect of for everybody out there who thinks you can't do it or doubts yourself. Or, you know, I don't know if she said it, or this is what I got, or looks like me and feels like there are walls and ceilings.”
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“Where it's hard to be celebrated, it's hard to celebrate your own work when you feel like you need to do more work. And I should be writing now.”
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“I woke up about like five minutes after it was all done. So I got it all at the same time. Which was very strategic because I didn't want Very quickly started crying.”
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“Was at my house. I live in Los Felas, California, in Los Angeles, and it's one person from Los Angeles in the house. Thank you. I was being kind to myself. Didn't wake up, didn't set the alarm to.”
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“You know, I think one of the reasons this movie found such success is because it's a fun movie to watch with somebody who hasn't seen it.”
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“This is the moment I was not prepared for. This is it I did know something big was going to happen. I thought there was a chance I'd get run out of the country, but I did know that certainly the black audience had been asking for this movie. And been waiting for this move. So I knew that”
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“So I feel like horror movies and the experience of going to a theater and sitting with a family that is the audience and going on these rides together is kind of the safest place to experience our fears. And I feel like we kind of make personal progress by not turning our backs on our own fear.”
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“I just love it. And I think I love it so much because it is a way to address our fears. And I love the theatrical experience of it as well because”
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“I was the first audience for this film. And it really was about getting to go home at the end of a day. Some of this time I was working on Keynel. And getting to go home and watching my favorite movie in my mind. And so that was many years.”
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“Yeah, it was kind of like that. It was a hobby for me. It was this idea of designing my favorite movie that I'd never seen before.”
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“I mean, so many, there were years put into. Conceiving the movie. But I didn't necessarily ever realize that it would actually ever get made. So at the point when someone pitched it and I said, let's make this movie, yeah, it was kind of like a uh-oh. Now we're in. We're in.”
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