Top 93 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Duffer - Page 2

I think when we were developing Season 1 - and to Netflix's credit, they sort of pressured us to make sure we had this mythology really hammered out - we had like a 25-page sort of 'Stranger Things' mythology that only maybe a small handful of people have seen.

The more that you reveal and the more you comprehend, the less scary it gets. That's sort of the H.P. Lovecraft, Clive Barker approach.

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 that world, it was to do with the imagery, it has to do with the sound design, and you're just immediately very uncomfortable and on edge. We wanted you to feel that way when you're in the Upside Down.

We've written for network television, where you have to worry about hitting these ad breaks, you have to worry about 42 minutes and 10 seconds exactly.

A debate about candy bars can get heated.

When we billed the project to Netflix, we had this big two-and-a-half-minute trailer that had about 20 or 30 of these movies kind of woven together to try and tell the story of 'Stranger Things,' but obviously all these images or ideas were in our heads.

When we were kids, the type of friends we hung out with were more creative types.

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

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 the supernatural one.

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

Dragon's Lair' we played a lot as kids. It's a fun game to look at - it's not a very fun game to play. Everyone who played it as a kid had the same experience: It's outrageously expensive, it looks really cool, it draws you in like a magnet, and then it just takes your money and is very frustrating.

We all grew up with loving 'Ghostbusters.' So of course our kids love 'Ghostbusters.'

As you're writing it, you want things to evolve. You want characters like that to grow.

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

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

We push ourselves and each other to be better. We're close enough that we're not timid around one another. We pitch so many ideas every day - sometimes good, sometimes bad. But it's great to have a safety net where hopefully, between the two of us, nothing really bad will ever get through.

We're not just brothers, we're twins, so I think we're maybe closer than most brothers.

We just fell in love with movies really, really early.

That's one of the cool things I love about television, is it's able to evolve and able to adapt and the actors and the performers are actually a more integral part of the process. So they're informing not just the characters, but the story.

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

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

We were such movie nerds - I hate to say this, but yeah, we would just listen to movie soundtracks growing up.

When we saw 'The Knick' or 'True Detective,' they had very distinct scores that were doing very distinct things.

The writing for us is the hardest, but also the most important. You want to get to the next part of it, to production, but it doesn't matter how beautifully made it is if something's wrong with the story arc.

We are such big John Carpenter fans.

We're really tough on everything we do.

Every writer you meet, at least in Hollywood, is miserable.

We always looked at the movie sequels that we admired, and they always pivot and they always try new things. Even if you swing and miss, at least you're trying something different.

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

Spielberg shoots with one camera. The Coens, and I think this is right, maybe discarded one shot on 'No Country for Old Men.' That's something you want to aspire to, because nothing's out of place. Everything's necessary.

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

We shared the same fears as kids - snakes and clowns. Now we also have more adult fears, like television critics.

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