A biography for Matt Dufferhasn’t been written yet.
“Television has been breaking narrative rules.”
“We were running around in the woods telling stories and putting on costumes. We're terrible actors, but we acted in everything that we did, and it was fun.”
“I have no connection to Chicago.”
“My favorite thing is that young people are having 'Stranger Things' parties and binge-watching it. Hopefully, it leads them to go back and discover some of these movies and folks who inspired us so much.”
“We shared the same fears as kids - snakes and clowns. Now we also have more adult fears, like television critics.”
“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.”
“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.”
“We're very socially awkward.”
“We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.”
“Freddy Krueger scared us. 'Hellraiser' really messed us up.”
“When we billed the project to Netflix, we had this big two-and-a-half-minute trailer that had about 20 or 30 of these movies kind of woven together to try and tell the story of 'Stranger Things,' but obviously all these images or ideas were in our heads.”
“We all grew up with loving 'Ghostbusters.' So of course our kids love 'Ghostbusters.'”
“Noah - the Schnappster - he's amazing.”
“The first movie I fell in love with was Tim Burton's 'Batman,' which isn't Chicago, obviously, it's Gotham.”
“That's something that Stephen King always has in his works. There's a human villain who's just as bad, if not worse than the supernatural one.”
“I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.”
“It's important for Ross and I to try stuff and not feel like we're doing the same thing over and over again.”
“One reason we fell in love with television is we've seen so many movies and they tend to follow a very similar pattern.”
“We've written for network television, where you have to worry about hitting these ad breaks, you have to worry about 42 minutes and 10 seconds exactly.”
“There were moments when we thought, 'We're never going to break through, because no one will take us seriously.'”