Usually I do a job, and, like, two weeks later, it disappears and is replaced with something else, but 'Get Out' kept growing and growing and growing, and it keeps taking me to rooms I could never get in before.

My experience growing up in London and growing up in a working class background is that when people are down and out, that's when they're probably the funniest. They have to be. That's what they do to cope, to find joy, 'cause they don't feel the joy inside. Or they use humor to keep people out.

I don't think you become a name with just one job.

Whenever I'm in a film that's from a perspective that is dominant within western culture... I'm always trying to prove myself. When it's from a black perspective, I don't have to - they get it.

Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.

Comedy is very difficult. You've got to have a perfect sense of timing.

My father, Leo Henry Brown, really was talented - he could write. He had a gift, and he had a great, sly humor.

And the only studies were - Rodney Dangerfield was my mentor and he was my Yale drama school for comedy.