Quotes from Finn Wolfhard

Scary movies, for me, I used to be insanely scared of.

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.

My dad is a screenwriter, so he always used to watch movies for inspiration when I was a baby. I would watch movies with him, I guess, in the background.

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

My dad, who is a screenwriter, showed me all these great movies. He showed me 'E.T.' when I was 2-years-old, and I just kind of progressed from there. It was also my brother. We'd always watch movies together, and he'd do these voices and he'd always want to do skits and he'd come up with stuff with me.

One time, when I was really young, my dad and brother were watching 'Team America,' the Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie. I walked in and they didn't know I was there, but I got really freaked out by the marionettes - just the look of them, their mouths, those grins. That cemented in my brain.

I do ride my bike a lot.

Meeting Ryan Reynolds was really cool, and Blake Lively.

If I lounge around for too long, I get really bored. I have to be doing something.

My parents are great. On every job, my whole family and I try to get as many breaks as I can.

I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It's those things that set each role apart from the others.

Jonah Hill is super cool.

I wanted to do something in film. I wanted to make my own movies. Something clicked in my brain, like, 'Oh, I can physically act! I can go on open casting calls and audition for something.'

I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip movie.

When I was younger, I acted in some Shakespeare stuff; I did one Shakespeare camp.

I love being Canadian.

I really used to like TVMaxwell, which is a classic, amazing, super-underrated comedy channel. And Cyndago was great.

I'm always interested in horror and the supernatural.

I wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.

My whole thing is having the perfect balance. Let's say I go to school. I have a day at school. That's the perfect amount of reality. Then I go and play music with my band. Then I go home and hang out with my family and my pets. I think that's the perfect amount of reality time.

For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need.

I've been asked to school dances.

I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.

It's really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end, it's about your character and the script and your director and the rest of the cast and crew.