'Get Out' takes on the task of exploring race in America, something that hasn't really been done within the genre since 'Night of the Living Dead' 47 years ago.

Like comedy, horror has an ability to provoke thought and further the conversation on real social issues in a very powerful way.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

I look at racism as one of the social demons. And, in its worst, it's violent and it's a systemic commitment to oppression.

The conversation about race is inevitable. It's one that people know that we have to have and continue to have.

A greater truth that I think we are faced with on a day-to-day basis as minorities is: We are the color of skin first and people second.

How we act with each other really reveals our most animal instincts.

I can fathom anything, man. I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.

[ When I met Barack Obama] He says, I do a pretty good me myself - he said something like that. But he's - he is a close talker. He's a touchy guy.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

Pray. Smile. Repeat.

There are no defining moments. There are only your moments to define.

The death of a young person for no reason is an apocalypse.

Happiness is being content with what you have, living in freedom and liberty, having a good family life and good friends.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable

The Romans believed that what no man controls, no man can own. Justinian, writing in the sixth century AD, said that the air, flowing water, the sea and the seashore were common to all.

A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.

I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it.