There's always something really bad that happens in 'Stranger Things,' I think the more fun we're having at the beginning, the higher the drop.
— Finn Wolfhard
I get recognized on the street and stuff, which is cool but it's also weird.
I don't want to get typecast and I've been doing a lot of stuff to make that happen and not be the case.
For me, I need to listen to music in the morning, and after, it's kind of like a shower, you know what I mean? It's kind of getting rid of everything. I always play music after I act. It's not a conscious thing, like, 'Oh finally, I need to do this,' it's kind of a constant need.
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 love acting, of course, and I would still love to keep acting, but I want to try my hands at so many things.
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've been asked to school dances.
I read 'Carrie' when I was younger and that's one of my favourite books.
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.
I try to keep my voice natural for each character, but the spirit and the cadence and breathing for each character is totally different. It's those things that set each role apart from the others.
One day I'm going to open up a club or a concert venue where it's all ages and really fun. That'd be awesome.
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.
Weird Al' is awesome and so humble.
I love doing both animation and live acting.
There's a band from Brooklyn called Frankie Cosmos, which is very nice.
The movies I was scared by at three or four are now some of my favorite movies of all time.
Jonah Hill is super cool.
Obviously 'Stranger Things' has given me the launching pad to have creative license for whatever I want, and I love doing the show, but when it comes to music, I want to distance myself as much as possible.
I was raised in a household where kids' opinions were just as valued as adults and I think that was important for me.
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 wanted to be a director and comedian and my plan was to go to NYU. I wanted to be in UCB.
I love learning on set, it's the best acting school ever.
The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.
Messing up lines is always embarrassing for me.
I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.
I really would not be where I am today if I hadn't done those PUP videos. It just showed me so much. It taught me so much about music and acting and being your own boss.
The aliens from 'Attack the Block' - I thought they were some of the most unique and creative movie monsters I had ever seen. From the jet-black hair to the neon blue teeth.
Any chance I get to see a band that I like, I take it.
Like, everyone knows that we all need health care, but not only is it insanely expensive for most people in America, there are so many self-employed people who really struggle when faced with injury and disability and illness.
I do ride my bike a lot.
I'm not a big radio listener.
I've really never discovered a band from Spotify or anything. I've really only discovered it from friends.
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.
Meeting Ryan Reynolds was really cool, and Blake Lively.
Some bands I'm obsessed with but I get sick of listening to their music after a while, but that hasn't happened with Twin Peaks.
I definitely do have a persona onstage. I definitely am a completely different person, but I'm still having a lot of fun and there's a lot of acting that goes into it. But I haven't been playing many shows when I'm working on acting as much because it's tiring, number one. And number two, it's hard for your mind to makeup what it wants to do.
My dad would play 'The Blue Album' a lot, the first Weezer album, and that influenced my alternative indie thing and that's kind of how I found tons and most of my favorite bands.
The things I want to focus on are music, writing, directing, and developing stuff.
Most of the fans of Calpurnia are 'Stranger Things' fans, which is not a big deal at all. They're super loyal and incredible, and really do like the music. It's the people who aren't fans of the music and are just there because of 'Stranger Things' that really bother me.
I learn a new thing every single day about acting, about directing, about producing.
I don't want to be mean to people. I try to be as nice as possible to everyone.
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.
I wanted to do something in film. I wanted to make my own movies. Something clicked in my brain, like, 'Oh, I can physically act! I can go on open casting calls and audition for something.'
The biggest thing for me, I hate going to concerts where no-one's moving. Everyone should be dancing and having a good time.
Yeah, ever since I was super-young I had a lot of dreams - I wanted to be a musician, I wanted to be a skateboarder.
Life gets weird enough without having to worry about whether you are covered for this or have to have a deductible for that, so the less stress when you are in need, the better.
To see a hacker actually hacking is not the most interesting thing visually, and it's pretty boring as an actor: a hacker taps on her keyboard. There's really not much more than that.
Sewer rats are really gross.
The Goonies' I love. 'Heathers' too.
