Quotes from Ross Duffer

That was always our favorite type of story, and that's the stuff we fell in love with. The peak of those type of ordinary-meets-extraordinary stories was in the '80s.

The summers of our childhood were the best times of our lives.

Of course, watching 'Stand By Me' is, to me, the pinnacle of child performances in movies or shows. It doesn't get much better than that, and those kids, you feel like you know them instantly and they feel real.

I don't wanna put people in front of green screens.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and it's going to get industry attention and that's going to be your thing. And it was only later on at school that we realized that's very rare that a short film is going to capture the attention of anyone.

There's nothing worse or more grating than a bad child actor performance.

I have a problem with trailers, because I love them too much. I'm one of those nerds that watches them on repeat.

We hung out with a group of nerdy friends playing games.

As brothers, you still get in plenty of disagreements, but I think that generally we work stuff out.

We were so focused on the production aspect of it that it wasn't until later in our college experience that we realized we needed to focus on writing. And once we did, that sort of became our way into Hollywood.

It was seventh grade or something like that when we started falling in love with stuff like Sam Raimi and Wes Craven and John Carpenter. Also, our filmmaking skills were getting a little more polished, so we thought we could actually make something that was not funny.

I love the early days of seasons, because you are filled with all of these possibilities.

Big crowds scare me.

Most sequels are generally disappointments.

The first 'Gremlins' was PG because I think it was before Spielberg scarred people with 'Temple of Doom.'

We're 10 or something, and we're watching 'Evil Dead,' which you don't really see the humor in when you're 10 years old. It was just terrifying. And same with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street,' which is such a brilliant movie and such a brilliant concept.

We started making movies when we were really young, in the fourth grade... if you can call them movies.

I don't go on Reddit, because I know that'll be quicksand and I won't be able to get out.

Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.

I remember reading 'The Running Man' in like one night.

I remember it took us so long to see 'Gremlins 2' - all my friends had seen it, but our mom was just like, 'no PG-13.'

We were the last generation to have the experience of going out with our friends to the woods or the train tracks and the only way our parents could connect with us was to say, 'It's time for dinner.'

We weren't playing much Dungeons and Dragons, we were mostly playing Magic the Gathering, but very similar. And we would go out in the woods and you felt like you were on these adventures.