Ross Duffer

I love the early days of seasons, because you are filled with all of these possibilities.

— Ross Duffer

Jaws' was a big one. It's a classic. The shark not working while making that movie made it much better.

— Ross Duffer

We're from North Carolina originally.

— Ross Duffer

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

— Ross Duffer

At the end of the day, 'Hidden' was a great experience. Because we know what it's like to fail. And we know…

— Ross Duffer

We wanted it to have a simplicity to it, so that if you're a 12-year-old and you're watching the show and you…

— Ross Duffer

In college, even, we shot on film.

— Ross Duffer

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and…

— Ross Duffer

If you look back at a lot of these Spielberg movies and Stephen King books, even though there's a lot of fun…

— Ross Duffer

Tim Burton - he's not exactly a subtle filmmaker. I mean that in a good way.

— Ross Duffer

When you look at it and see, 'Oh,they made their first movie at 27,' you feel like a jerk saying it felt…

— Ross Duffer

We started making movies when we were really young, in the fourth grade... if you can call them movies.

— Ross Duffer

At the end of the day, what really matters in 'Poltergeist' is that Carol Anne is missing and they have to go…

— Ross Duffer

We hung out with a group of nerdy friends playing games.

— Ross Duffer

It was Tim Burton's 'Batman' in, what, '89, I think? What we could see was there was someone behind the curtain controlling…

— Ross Duffer

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

— Ross Duffer

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

— Ross Duffer

I don't go on Reddit, because I know that'll be quicksand and I won't be able to get out.

— Ross Duffer

There's a lot of 'Silent Hill' in the Upside Down, which people have noticed.

— Ross Duffer

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.…

— Ross Duffer

Even when 'Stranger Things' was finished and we couldn't touch it anymore, we saw all these problems still and we were begging…

— Ross Duffer

I don't wanna put people in front of green screens.

— Ross Duffer

We have our Upside Down document which describes its rules and its mythology in quite a bit of detail, but I think…

— Ross Duffer

It was seventh grade or something like that when we started falling in love with stuff like Sam Raimi and Wes Craven…

— Ross Duffer

We were so focused on the production aspect of it that it wasn't until later in our college experience that we realized…

— Ross Duffer