Quotes from Misha Green

From the start I was a kid who read 'Goosebumps', and that led me to Stephen King, and then I saw 'Aliens,' and 'Night of the Living Dead,' the original. And with 'Night of the Living Dead' I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a black person who's the main character. Does anybody see that?'

It's no secret - I've said this before - people have mistaken me for a P.A. on the set. On my own set.

When I first read 'Lovecraft Country' I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television.

Unlike a lot of people, I'm not afraid of the unknown. It intrigues me.

I don't want to say you should censor yourselves, but the storyteller should be able to defend why a narrative needed to shift that way or should only be told this way.

I got a dollhouse when I was six, and my sister would always say, 'You realize you're just talking to yourself. What are you doing?' That kind of opened up this creative need to tell stories.

One of the things I love so much about horror is the way it uses surprise, and when I write, it's about: What have we not seen before? What's going to surprise us? If we're not going beyond, taking that challenge, I get kind of bored.

Oppression is not limited to people of color, but if you feel guilty that's something you should confront.

In an homage, you always want to subvert it and have fresh new takes. You don't want the audience to say, 'Oh they just did 'The Amityville Horror' there,' you always want to add something new.

In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.

It's hard for me to say what viewers will take from a thing because I try not to think about that when I'm making it.

There's no limits other than my imagination, which is fantastic.