FINN WOLFHARD

The Duffers like that; they like watching their characters grow.

It's really cool when the thing you are working on as a small team gets embraced by millions, but in the end, it's about your character and the script and your director and the rest of the cast and crew.

I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'

The movies I was scared by at three or four are now some of my favorite movies of all time.

I don't take the Internet and social media very seriously. I've grown up around social media but to me what happens on the Internet just doesn't feel real.

One time, when I was really young, my dad and brother were watching 'Team America,' the Trey Parker and Matt Stone movie. I walked in and they didn't know I was there, but I got really freaked out by the marionettes - just the look of them, their mouths, those grins. That cemented in my brain.

My dad, who is a screenwriter, showed me all these great movies. He showed me 'E.T.' when I was 2-years-old, and I just kind of progressed from there. It was also my brother. We'd always watch movies together, and he'd do these voices and he'd always want to do skits and he'd come up with stuff with me.

I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.

I have lots of friends who are musicians and it is such a huge victory to survive in music, period - but if you get sick or injured and don't have the kind of coverage we get in Canada, you are doomed.

My parents were in high school and college in the '80s, so let's just say I've heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they provide from that era is about politics.

There's so many influential albums my parents would put on. Like the first album I ever heard was 'Help!' by the Beatles and from there I just loved rock music.

I'd actually love to do more comedy, but what I really wanna do is an indie drama - an intense indie road-trip movie.

I probably saw 'Jaws' when I was 10.

I never liked horror up until I was like 10 years old.

My favorite thing is to have collectives. Even when it comes to filmmaking as well, filmmaking and music and most art in general, I feel like everyone should have the same say. If you're in a collective, I feel like everyone should have the same say.

I'm not a big radio listener.

The Goonies' I love. 'Heathers' too.

Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.

Well, I kind of did the math in my head when I was like, 9. I was like, 'Well, if I want to make films' - because I want to be a director - 'I could just go on a film set and learn there.' And then I ended up falling in love with acting and the set and making friends all the time. And so I've just been doing that ever since.

We need musicians! We need them healthy - we need to dance and we need to escape - and none of that is possible when musicians themselves need support.

PUP introduced me to so much more amazing music. They really shaped my sound.

I'd recommend anyone watch 'Harold and Maude,' 'cause it helps a lot with fear of death.

Weird Al' is awesome and so humble.

My whole thing is having the perfect balance. Let's say I go to school. I have a day at school. That's the perfect amount of reality. Then I go and play music with my band. Then I go home and hang out with my family and my pets. I think that's the perfect amount of reality time.

The things I want to focus on are music, writing, directing, and developing stuff.