“I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the…” — Jordan Peele

Now that the black experience isn't viewed as box-office death, people are catching up to untapped auteurs.

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

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

The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.