David Harbour

“I do feel like anything benefits from character logic. That can be from the dumbest ad to the greatest Shakespearean drama to the silliest 'Saturday Night Live' sketch. There is a certain specificity in detail, which you can get when you're paying attention to stuff like that.”

“All of Aaron Sorkin's characters are so smart.”

“Netflix sees people as users or subscribers or customers. Historically, networks have seen people as viewers.”

“I'm a big fan of public trust.”

“Sometimes I feel like, those superheroes, if you threw a cookie at them, they would be more terrified than the villain because they might have to eat a carbohydrate.”

“I did this movie, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' - I truly play a horrible, horrible individual in that - and I would occasionally go to the theater and watch what people's responses were, and they would laugh. He makes jokes, and people would respond to him in a human way. Then I've really done my job if I've humanized a really horrible person.”

“I really like big swashbuckling superhero films, but I feel like that Marvel universe is not adult enough.”

“I don't even know what memes are, I'm, like, an old person, so I don't really know what a meme is.”

“In a sense, human beings are human beings. Their feelings of aloneness, of brokenness, their feelings of hurt and disappointment, are universal. It's the ways they choose to act on their feelings that separates them.”

“I'm a bit of a strange human being - I love to work. I love art. I love self-expression.”

“If you are misunderstood, I want you to know that I feel the same way.”

“People are more complicated than you give them credit for.”

“I'm always fascinated emotionally in the moment that someone pulls a gun, even a cop. That action - I don't know that I, personally, as a human being, could do it.”

“There is a lot of good television out there, stuff that is better for you than 'Stranger Things,' that, critically, people would be like, 'This is an important show,' but I would press you to find a show that's more watchable. That's hard to do.”

“The more I work in the film business, the more I see that those guys, the directors, have the most fun on set.”

“Social media should be more like a cocktail party than anything else. You can have your fun jokes, and you can also express yourself and your beliefs. It's a conversation, not a sledgehammer.”

“When I got to be, like, in high school and stuff, I sort of was drawn to that feeling of feeling uncomfortable in my skin and being confused by human beings, like, just constantly confused.”

“I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is.”

“I want to bring love handles and eating sandwiches back.”

“What makes someone sexy in my mind is who they are. It's not necessarily how they look.”