Matt Duffer

We're from the South.

— Matt Duffer

We grew up in Durham, N.C.

— Matt Duffer

We are such big John Carpenter fans.

— Matt Duffer

A debate about candy bars can get heated.

— Matt Duffer

Noah - the Schnappster - he's amazing.

— Matt Duffer

We just loved scaring ourselves.

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We're very socially awkward.

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I have no connection to Chicago.

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David Lynch is very esoteric. He doesn't explain anything.

— Matt Duffer

I always loved fantasy, or the fantastical.

— Matt Duffer

We started making movies in the third grade.

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I think music is one of the reasons we fell in love with movies.

— Matt Duffer

We never wanted to be ironic; we didn't want to wink at the audience.

— Matt Duffer

All of the movies we watched growing up, we watched together.

— Matt Duffer

I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.

— Matt Duffer

I think we're very hard on ourselves and hard on our work.

— Matt Duffer

Netflix isn't spending movie-level marketing money - they want people to find this stuff through word of mouth.

— Matt Duffer

When you shoot at slow-motion, or a high frame rate, it makes it really difficult to rack focus.

— Matt Duffer

There were moments when we thought, 'We're never going to break through, because no one will take us seriously.'

— Matt Duffer

We were running around in the woods telling stories and putting on costumes. We're terrible actors, but we acted in everything that…

— Matt Duffer

That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a…

— Matt Duffer

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…

— Matt Duffer

We've written for network television, where you have to worry about hitting these ad breaks, you have to worry about 42 minutes…

— Matt Duffer

Often it's scarier when stuff is weird and when you don't fully understand the motive. Pennywise in 'IT' is very weird.

— Matt Duffer

My favorite thing is that young people are having 'Stranger Things' parties and binge-watching it. Hopefully, it leads them to go back…

— Matt Duffer

Dragon's Lair' we played a lot as kids. It's a fun game to look at - it's not a very fun game…

— Matt Duffer

We wish we had known that success takes time, that it's gonna require an unimaginable amount of hard work, that you're going…

— Matt Duffer

I would feel really nervous doing something, especially something like one of Stephen King's classic books that meant a lot to me,…

— Matt Duffer

What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives…

— Matt Duffer

When we were first writing 'Stranger Things,' the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it…

— Matt Duffer

When we were growing up, some of those Amblin films, those Spielberg movies, led to the creation of the PG-13 rating because…

— Matt Duffer

Us and everyone in Hollywood puts so much time and effort and money into getting things to look just right and when…

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We're huge, huge fans of the 'Dark Souls' games, and there's something about when you're playing 'Dark Souls.' Immediately when you're in…

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The first thing our Chapman screenwriting professors taught us was that all stories share one thing in common: there is a protagonist,…

— Matt Duffer

We're really tough on everything we do.

— Matt Duffer

When you're a kid, you don't watch a movie one time. You watch it 10, 20 times.

— Matt Duffer

We love David Lynch. We're big David Lynch fans.

— Matt Duffer

There's so much content out there, even good shows get lost.

— Matt Duffer

My brother and I played D&D. We just weren't particularly great at it.

— Matt Duffer

Freddy Krueger scared us. 'Hellraiser' really messed us up.

— Matt Duffer