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Last updated on November 8, 2024.
One reason we fell in love with television is we've seen so many movies and they tend to follow a very similar pattern.
I think the PGA Award, when we won that, was so shocking to me. I thought, 'Absolutely no way.' I was barely listening when they were announcing it.
I don't particularly enjoy parties, but it's really nice to be able to meet other creatives who work on shows you admire or actors who work on shows that you love.
What we loved about the movies we watched as children was the great character work. They are all about the place where the ordinary meets the extraordinary.
The first thing our Chapman screenwriting professors taught us was that all stories share one thing in common: there is a protagonist, and that protagonist has a goal that he or she has difficulty achieving. Does Luke Skywalker become Luke Skywalker if he doesn't get pulled into the Death Star, if his best friend isn't turned into carbonite?
What's fun to me is that we can make movies but we are no longer restricted by this two-hour timeframe. It gives us this bigger canvas to paint on. It opens up all sorts of new storytelling possibilities.
We lived in an ordinary suburb and had an ordinary childhood. It didn't feel like the 'South.' Everyone says Durham is a bunch of northern yankees transplanted to North Carolina. The stereotypical South does exist - if you drove 10 miles in the wrong direction you'd be right in the middle of it. We didn't grow up with that.
I don't believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.
You know, there's nothing in 'E.T.' that earmarks it as really '80s.
When you're a kid, you don't watch a movie one time. You watch it 10, 20 times.
That's the fun of television. You can find an actor and they'll inspire you to change and evolve a character in a way you hadn't initially planned on.
My brother and I played D&D. We just weren't particularly great at it.
Yeah, I don't want to put it out like 'I don't want to do a movie,' because yeah, I do.
We're from the South.
We were in the last generation to grow up without a cell phone being a part of our lives at all, without tech things and having any of that.
We asked ourselves the question: is there anything we wished we had known before heading out into the terrifying unknown that is the 'real world.' Turns out yeah. There's a lot we wish we had known.
Us and everyone in Hollywood puts so much time and effort and money into getting things to look just right and when you see it in someone's home, it looks like it was shot on an iPhone.
We didn't go to any summer camps because we just wanted to be making movies and telling stories.
When we were growing up, some of those Amblin films, those Spielberg movies, led to the creation of the PG-13 rating because he was pushing it so dark and he upset a lot of parents. I liked that, though.
If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.
It's important for Ross and I to try stuff and not feel like we're doing the same thing over and over again.
We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.
We started making movies in the third grade.
We fell in love with movies through directors. Very early on we knew that was what we wanted to do.
We decided around fourth or fifth grade that we were going to go to film school.
Two of my favorite movies of all time are 'Aliens' and 'Diner.'
If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.
In kindergarten, we'd tell stories with our toys. We'd set a timer for two hours because we knew that was how long a movie was.
Freddy Krueger scared us. 'Hellraiser' really messed us up.
The monsters and creatures were always scarier when they felt very real and tangible, and there's something about CG that lessens the impact of it.
We wish we had known that success takes time, that it's gonna require an unimaginable amount of hard work, that you're going to have to pretend you know what you're doing even when don't, and that as cheesy and cliche as it may sound, following your heart is actually... the key to everything.
Noah - the Schnappster - he's amazing.
When I go to my friends' places back home, I'm constantly fixing their TVs.
My favorite thing is that young people are having 'Stranger Things' parties and binge-watching it. Hopefully, it leads them to go back and discover some of these movies and folks who inspired us so much.
We grew up in Durham, N.C.
When you shoot at slow-motion, or a high frame rate, it makes it really difficult to rack focus.
Television has been breaking narrative rules.
Yeah, if I'm fried mentally, incapable of directing for a second, Ross is there and will take over. Or at least, together we can somehow manage make it through the day.
I always loved fantasy, or the fantastical.
I watched a little 'Beyond the Black Rainbow.'
I have no connection to Chicago.
Often it's scarier when stuff is weird and when you don't fully understand the motive. Pennywise in 'IT' is very weird.
I'm as far from a city boy as you can get.
You have to go through a big process with the Directors Guild in order to get co-direction credit. They sit you in front of this microphone in front of like 40 legendary directors, and they start grilling you.
You find a movie you love and you figure out who directed it, then you go to the video store and go through all the John Carpenter stuff and all the Sam Raimi stuff.
There were moments when we thought, 'We're never going to break through, because no one will take us seriously.'
Steven Spielberg films were huge touchstones for us growing up.
We wrote this Shyamalan-esque movie and then he read the script and said, 'I like it!'
I loved the 'Lord of the Rings' books, 'The Hobbit.' And my parents, they still don't understand it because they hate fantasy stuff. Neither of them are into it. So I don't know where it comes from.
Most kids, you can turn off their auditions after five seconds, because there's nothing authentic about it.
We just loved scaring ourselves.
I would feel really nervous doing something, especially something like one of Stephen King's classic books that meant a lot to me, because there would be nothing worse than screwing that up.
When we were kids, every time you left the house with your friends you had it in the back of your head that you could go on a crazy adventure just like the characters in those movies we loved. That's hard to do if you've got your parents constantly texting you.
I love that the Department of Energy issued a public statement that they're not evil.
We flirted with popularity in high school, which was when people realized that our videos, if used for a class assignment, would get you an automatic A. It took me a few months to realize I was just being used. They would only hang out with us while we were making the film for them.
When we were first writing 'Stranger Things,' the first thing we wrote was that Dungeons & Dragons scene. And we wrote it in about two minutes. It just poured out of us because it was so close to us.
We're very socially awkward.
The first movie I fell in love with was Tim Burton's 'Batman,' which isn't Chicago, obviously, it's Gotham.
If there wasn't struggle you would never grow. You would never become who you're meant to be. And let's be honest. It would also be... super boring both in movies and in life.
That's why I wanted to say 'Stranger Things 2,' because I don't want to think about it as a TV show. Maybe it's a snobby thing, but it's like: 'Oh, I want it to be a movie. I want it to be a movie sequel.
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