Get Out Quotes

“Then the cops come... That to me means all of the movie with all of this absurdity culminates to an absurdity that is so grounded it's actually real. It shows you that all of these other choices are not that crazy anymore. No matter whether or not the audience bought any of the decisions I've made--they could've viewed the brain transplants or the hypnotizing as ridiculous and fantastical--they have to acknowledge that the cop car showing up is a real threat to Chris's life. And maybe that makes them go back and reevaluate whether the other decisions were that far-fetched after all.”
― Jordan Peele, Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

“And the reason I started crying was because I realized how big and insurmountable seeming systemic racism is. It involves so many different perpetrators, it involves us, the victims, and it comes in so many different forms... A big part of the Sunken Place, to me, is the silencing of our voice, the silencing of our screams, what we as a culture did to Colin Kaepernick for using his voice, the silencing of that voice, or the attempted silencing of that voice. And the beauty of what many great civil rights leaders, specifically Martin Luther King Jr., taught us is that our voice is the weapon we have against violence, against oppression, against hatred. So, the silencing of that voice, it comes in prison, it comes in athletes, it comes in the lack of representation of Black people in horror movies, and any part of this industry.”
― Jordan Peele, Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

“One question that Black and minority creators often face is, Must our stories always be about the struggle against oppression? The answer is a resounding No. The only imperative in Black stories is the same as non-Black stories--to convey our human struggles. Some of our struggles are with society, but others are with the self, with our families, our communities. All of those are Black stories too.”
― Jordan Peele, Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay