Misha Green

“The horror genre has long been used to uncover the dark underbelly of things.”

“It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.”

“Unlike a lot of people, I'm not afraid of the unknown. It intrigues me.”

“I mean, you can't help but imagine it a little bit... like, 'What would I do with a Black Canary show?' It'd be exciting, I know that.”

“In horror, there's a level of anxiety that your life can be taken at any moment. That's the Black experience.”

“It's no secret - I've said this before - people have mistaken me for a P.A. on the set. On my own set.”

“When people walk into our casting room, we do think about what you do outside of being an actor.”

“Stephen King's 'It' is my favorite book of all time. I was that kid that would come to the library and be like: 'There's more Stephen King? Great.'”

“When I first read 'Lovecraft Country' I knew it had the potential to be unlike anything else on television.”

“'Lovecraft Country' is reclaiming all these pulp genres for people of color.”

“In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and do bad things. Even slave owners need to be people.”

“For me, a theme that's always circling around in my head - which is why I love the horror genre - is what we're ready to do for metaphorical and physical survival.”

“The casting process starts off really scary, especially when you're trying to find a Harriet Tubman.”

“The story of the Underground Railroad is the story of American heroes, and who doesn't want to hear a story about American heroes?”

“There's no limits other than my imagination, which is fantastic.”

“That's what the best art does, it starts the conversation. What you may see in a scene or a line isn't what I might see, but that conversation we have, that's how we move forward.”

“Everybody wants to watch the underdog win.”

“From the start I was a kid who read 'Goosebumps', and that led me to Stephen King, and then I saw 'Aliens,' and 'Night of the Living Dead,' the original. And with 'Night of the Living Dead' I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a black person who's the main character. Does anybody see that?'”

“What's so interesting is taking kind of all these horror tropes and really finding black history and American history to layer on top of it.”

“For a white writer not to be able to step into the shoes of people of color confuses me. That should be the default - many people of color have to step into the shoes of white people. Women have to step into the shoes of men.”