Andy Muschietti

I don't have a negative perception of clowns. ”

One of the greatest things about the book is that everything we know about 'It,' it's pretty speculative. We see it from the point of view of Loser's and that's what makes it so scary. We never get to know exactly what it is. ”

Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s. ”

Yeah, my parents exposed me to horror movies when I was like 6 or 7. I mean exposed me in a good way, they didn't mean any harm. ”

I think mainly my devotion to horror comes from international horror movies and literature. ”

Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it. ”

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary. ”

We live in a world where there's a culture of fear, where some leaders have a strong pull on people, which is exactly what Pennywise does. ”

Hate crimes are still happening. No matter how evolved we think society is going, there seems to be a winding back, especially in this day and age where these old values seem to be emerging from the darkness. ”

The character of 'Mama' is so ambitious in a way that everything I did was always on the verge of being almost funny. So you have to be very careful with that. It's that sort of face that you don't usually see in horror. ”