Quotes from Andy Muschietti

It's like my second home, 'It.' And I would like to return to it, because I feel very comfortable with it, and I have an understanding of it, and I'm passionate about it.

I don't have a negative perception of clowns.

Casting is a big deal.

Bill Hader, nobody can play Richie like this guy, I think. It was great because, for some reason, 'Chapter Two' was a movie that everyone wanted to be in.

IT Chapter Two' is the story of the Losers as adults 27 years later, but they go back to their memories to retrieve something that is very, very necessary. They have to remember who they were, as well as their amazing bond with each other.

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

I enjoyed clowns when I was a kid going to the circus. Mainly I mean the good clowns, when you go to a circus.

I'm a big fan of Edward Gorey, and I don't think he has been portrayed in film.

Something a lot of people probably don't know is 'Chapter One' did have the idea to make a post-credit scene, which was Beverly Marsh picking up the phone. So, 27 years later, post credit, you would see a phone ringing.

I've always been a big fan of Stephen King, especially in my teenage years.

A movie is very different when you're writing the script and you're building a story compared to what the final product is.

What captivated me about 'The Flash' is the human drama in it.

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.

We are a society that really worked to leave our differences behind, and value equality. All these things actually make a community live in harmony.

I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.

It's a horror movie, but it's quite emotional too, and there's a lot of humor.

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

When you're a writer and you're an adult, that's something you crave - that limitless imagination and love for worlds that don't exist that you can create.

I like to create characters and worlds, and there's nothing like telling your own stories.

At the beginning when you're writing and building the beats of the story, everything that you put in there seems very essential to the story. However, when you have the movie finally edited and it's 4 four hours long, you realise that some of the events and some of the beats can be easily lifted but the essence of the story remains intact.

You have to go to what the essence of what Pennywise is about - the dark power of adulthood. It's not coincidence all the grown-ups in town are evil. This is not a story about a monster. It's a story about the end of childhood.

Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and talks about all of the treasures of that time, like imagination and belief, that are inevitably lost in adulthood.

Argentina is a bit tough to people. You don't embrace genre film in general. They are more like, in the film community, a bit snobby.

Sequels are always tricky.