Jordan Peele Quotes

I just make films that attract me.

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

When you make a movie, you can only make the movie that you would want to see.

'Frances Ha' is the closest final product to what I had in my head of any movie I've made. I'm not entirely even sure why that is.

I make movies that I enjoy making and tell stories that I want to see, so it’s hard. You never reverse engineer those things and go, “What would appeal to this or that?” Even if I tried, I don’t know. I’m an all-American kid.

I make films, and I hope that people come to see them. If they don't, I pay a big price. But I can't make decisions where I would change my own standards or my own taste in order to court the public in some way.

I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.

I want to make movies that I want to see, and what I miss and I'm not seeing.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.

You have to make films you feel strongly about. And then hope you can find the audience.

I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.

The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.

Whatever art form you're working in, it's crucial to see it clearly, to feel it clearly, and not to worry about the results, or how someone else will see it.

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

We wrote what sounded good to us and hoped it would find a home.

I see videomaking as an art - it's not a process for me.

I'm doing the kind of show that I would want to see.

I've never really thought of myself as just an actor; I always thought of myself as aspiring to be an artist, and an artist has to take risks and put himself on the line.

I just want to make TV that I want to see.

For me, each film, each script is like a little journey in itself, and I'm reinventing the wheel. It's like, 'How do I make this film?' That's part of the pleasure, and that's why I'm not a normal professional director.

Films should involve a director's idiosyncrasies as much as possible I think.

I have always believed that facilitating good, unusual content should be one of my prerogatives as someone who has spent half his life in cinema.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.