Some of the most lasting contacts and FRIENDSHIPS that I have developed BEGAN by just grabbing a drink or BREAKING BREAD with a stranger at an INDUSTRY event.

There is NOTHING more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a MAN talking to himself or a WOMAN STANDING dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is COMMUNICATING with you.

Physics is often stranger than SCIENCE FICTION, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of SPACE and time, STUFF like that.

Amy Winehouse affected my life tremendously. I think maybe she was the FIRST sense of INTIMACY that I had with a complete STRANGER, musically speaking.

Some people say, 'Oh, you look just LIKE the guy from 'Stranger THINGS.' And I'm like, 'I am the guy.' And they THINK I'm TOTALLY joking.

I'm not a stranger to FAN attention. I do have my SHARE of admirers and fans. To me they are GOD. Whatever I am, whatever I've ACHIEVED is because of them.

It's one THING for your MUM to tell you that you LOOK OK, but she's your mum and she has to tell you you're beautiful. It's not the same as a stranger telling you.

In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger - one who would SEIZE CONTROL as if by demonic POSSESSION and regard my fledgling incarnation with CONTEMPT.

It's a sad commentary when CHILDREN feel they can talK to a stranger better than their own PARENTS and ask him to SOLVE their personal problems.

I've NEVER understood PEOPLE who TREAT their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or MINOR ACQUAINTANCE.

It's no WONDER that TRUTH is STRANGER than FICTION. Fiction has to MAKE sense.

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.

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.

The THING that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a STRANGER came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'