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I came up with this idea during the Obama administration, when we were living in this era of the post-racial lie, racism is real and it's not really represented in the horror genre, which is a genre that traditionally takes on social horrors and human demons.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
One of the things that opened this up for me is realizing he's a humorist, we think of him as a horror, science-fiction master, but he has a perfect pitch tone of comedy.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I would say,' What is your part in the evils that you observe ?' in order for us to live a life in safety, or relative safety, someone has to live a life of danger. We're connected to evil whether or not we face it on the daily basis or not.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I'm making a movie in Northern California, that's a Bay Area hip-hop classic and I wanted to explore this very relatable journey of being a parent [ and ] maybe some of the songs you listened to back in the day aren't appropriate for your kids, so that was one level, and another part was, I love songs that have a great feeling but also have a haunting element to them and I feel like the beat in that song has this inherent cryptic energy, almost reminiscent of the' Nightmare on Elm Street' soundtrack.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I consider The Stepford Wives social thrillers, the Stepford Wives're about gender and the women's lib movement and that civil rights movement, but The Stepford Wives're also entertaining mysteries. I figured we could make a' Rosemary's Baby/Stepford Wives' of race.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We are at a time where we fear' the other,' i wanted to suggest that the monster has our face, maybe the evil is us.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I thought no one would ever make this movie, but I kept coming back to it because I knew that if someone let me make this movie, that people would hear it and people would see it.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I used to go to the movie theater and watch horror movies and you know black people, we yell s --- at the screen, i ’d go watch like a Freddy movie and you ’d hear people saying s --- like, ‘ Oh, b ----, get out of the house ’ or ‘ No. no, no -- don’t walk backwards ! ’ or ‘ You’re white -- call the cops ! ’ I got it in my head that there was a missing piece of the conversation. There was a film that we were asking for, begging for that was n’t there for us.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I did n’t know it was ever going to get made. I ’d go home, smoke a little bit of weed and I would write.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
HARRISON FORD SERVED AS UNDERCOVER ADVISER FOR ‘ SOLO : ‘ A STAR WARS STORY ’ Jordan Peele spoke about the underlying themes of the movie which included slavery. I realized what this movie was about. I realized that slavery was not something of the past. The' sunken place' to me, shouted to me, that in today’s time, in modern time, we have black men and women abducted and put in dark holes. We have our freedoms taken away … I realized at that point that there were people being locked up and taken out of the world and taken from their families for holding less weed than I was smoking while I was writing this movie.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
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