Quotes from Matt Duffer

We just loved scaring ourselves.

Most kids, you can turn off their auditions after five seconds, because there's nothing authentic about it.

I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, 'Absolutely no way.' I was barely listening when they were announcing it.

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production, but it doesn't matter how beautifully made it is if something's wrong with the story arc.

That's one of the cool things I love about television, is it's able to evolve and able to adapt and the actors and the performers are actually a more integral part of the process. So they're informing not just the characters, but the story.

If there wasn't struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you're meant to be. And let's be honest. It would also be... super boring both in movies and in life.

We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.

We are such big John Carpenter fans.

That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a way you hadn't initially planned on.

The more that you reveal and the more you comprehend, the less scary it gets. That's sort of the H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker approach.

We always looked at the movie sequels that we admired, and they always pivot and they always try new things. Even if you swing and miss, at least you're trying something different.

The monsters and creatures were always scarier when they felt very real and tangible, and there's something about CG that lessens the impact of it.

If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.

Two of my favorite movies of all time are 'Aliens' and 'Diner.'

You find a movie you love and you figure out who directed it, then you go to the video store and go through all the John Carpenter stuff and all the Sam Raimi stuff.

We were in the last generation to grow up without a cell phone being a part of our lives at all, without tech things and having any of that.

We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.

One reason we fell in love with television is we've seen so many movies and they tend to follow a very similar pattern.

When I go to my friends' places back home, I'm constantly fixing their TVs.

We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.

We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.

When we were kids, every time you left the house with your friends you had it in the back of your head that you could go on a crazy adventure just like the characters in those movies we loved. That's hard to do if you've got your parents constantly texting you.

When we were first writing 'Stranger Things,' the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it in about two minutes. It just poured out of us because it was so close to us.

I watched a little 'Beyond the Black Rainbow.'