Humans are the true monsters in many stories because our fear of the unfamiliar leads us to behave monstrously.

“The thing that makes them bad is we is us. And this is the commentary about monsters. Once we become familiar with monsters, they're not so evil anymore.”

Humans create and personify monsters as a way to understand things they fear or find unknown.

“Anything we didn't know, didn't understand, and feared, we tried to personify or put into this concept of a monster, make it more accessible to us.”