A biography for Ross Dufferhasn’t been written yet.
“Tim Burton - he's not exactly a subtle filmmaker. I mean that in a good way.”
“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.”
“We were seeing TV becoming increasingly cinematic, with stuff like 'True Detective.' And 'Game of Thrones' opened up 'genre TV' and showed it doesn't have to be cheesy.”
“Sometimes you see a monster sitting down in a chair and it looks ridiculous.”
“We always loved that idea of the Amity feel in 'Jaws,' in a coastal town.”
“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.”
“We have vague memories of the Eighties. But we were still pre-Internet and pre-cell phone for most of our childhood.”
“I love playing into those horror tropes of 'don't go into the basement, you idiot.' I love that, so it's fun to sometimes play into it and sometimes against type and the tropes.”
“In college, even, we shot on film.”
“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.”
“High school was terrible for us.”
“As brothers, you still get in plenty of disagreements, but I think that generally we work stuff out.”
“Chapman pushes internships a lot, and starting the summer of sophomore year we started interning because we knew that was the best way to make connections.”
“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.”
“I don't go on Reddit, because I know that'll be quicksand and I won't be able to get out.”
“I don't wanna put people in front of green screens.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“Of a thousand people, someone's not a good guy.”
“Jaws' was a big one. It's a classic. The shark not working while making that movie made it much better.”