"Art can have connections over many centuries or thousands of years."

“Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.”

Source : William Stringfellow (2006). “Dissenter in a Great Society: A Christian View of America in Crisis”, p.36, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Usually I play the bad guy role, a terrorist or someone.”

“It doesn't take any effort to dream. It's a lot easier than looking at the problems in front of you and figuring out what you're going to do about them. But all you're doing is putting your problems up on a shelf for later, right? That doesn't make them go away.”

“The family is the scene of the most intimate and powerful of human experiences. Family situations are bloodier and more passionate than any others, and the costs are greater.”

“We've grown accustomed to injustice in Russia. People are constantly being arrested unlawfully.”

“A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.”

Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele Talk Key & Peele Series Premiere". Interview with B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. January 31, 2012.

“The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.”

“California belongs to Joan Didion. Not the California where everyone wears aviator sunglasses, owns a Jacuzzi and buys his clothes on Rodeo Drive. But California in the sense of the West. The old West where Manifest Destiny was an almost palpable notion that was somehow tied to the land and the climate and one's own family-an unspoken belief that was passed down to children in stories and sayings.”