Ross Duffer

“Big crowds scare me.”

“If you have a successful movie, No. 2 is always a little bit bigger.”

“Sound is very important to us, even in our scripts. We write-in tons of sound effects.”

“We wrote a script in college.”

“Even when 'Stranger Things' was finished and we couldn't touch it anymore, we saw all these problems still and we were begging Netflix to go back in and fix stuff. They were like, 'Guys, stop, just leave it alone.' But it was torturous, honestly.”

“It was Tim Burton's 'Batman' in, what, '89, I think? What we could see was there was someone behind the curtain controlling all of this, and you could see it from one Tim Burton film to the next, that the guy who made 'Edward Scissorhands' also made 'Batman.' You could connect the dots because his style was so distinct.”

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

“Game of Thrones' really opened the door. It let people see that genre shows are worthy.”

“Some of our favorite movies, like 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' and 'Breaking Away,' were set in Indiana.”

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

“We love genre, but in film if you make a genre film it has to all be about the genre. We were excited to be able to tell more complex stories on television.”

“The format of Netflix was the dream for us. It allowed us to make cinematic, longer episodes without interruption.”

“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.”

“We have our Upside Down document which describes its rules and its mythology in quite a bit of detail, but I think we're just going to slowly parse that out, and maybe not even fully use all of it.”

“What I liked about 'Get Out,' which is so rare, is that there's just as much focus on getting to know and care about these characters on top of the film being clever and scary.”

“It was strange initially to be directing Winona Ryder. Of course it was.”

“We still love movies.”

“At the end of the day, what really matters in 'Poltergeist' is that Carol Anne is missing and they have to go through a portal in the closet to get her back. That matters more than the backstory.”

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

“Most sequels are generally disappointments.”