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.
Jordan PeeleWith a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.
Jordan PeeleIt's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.
Jordan PeeleWe need to break boundaries, so every time I feel like, "Oh snap, oh my God, I don't know how this is gonna be received," I also feel this validation, like, "All the greats, all my favorites have felt this."
Jordan PeeleThe 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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