"We just loved scaring ourselves." — Matt Duffer

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.

If you're doing a movie, the minute you put a monster in it, it becomes a horror movie.

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

Television has been breaking narrative rules.

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

If you were to encounter something from another world or dimension, it would be beyond comprehension.

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 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.

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We just loved scaring ourselves.