Quotes

If I called my kids a moron, I think it would traumatize them. I don't think they even know what the word is.

I always wanted to meet David Hasselhoff, but I never did.

I never saw my parents kiss.

In high school, I was so obsessed with the movie that I started an actual 'Highlander' club with my two best friends, Mike Levy and David Sirota. What began as a few geeks hitting each other with swords we made in woodshop soon became a school-wide game with 20 people playing. It became so disruptive that the administration had to shut it down.

My favorite thing to do as a kid was pretend I was in the opening credits of a sitcom. As the theme song would play, I'd look up at the imaginary camera and smile as my name would flash on the screen.

Watching Eagles games with my dad, whether at the vet or in our house, was a big part of my childhood.

My brother Barry was into all sports, and so was my late father. For me, hockey was the one sport I loved and played. I didn't really pay much attention to the other sports.

I wasn't a sweet kid. I was an instigator and provoked everyone with my goofy hyena cackle, loving every minute of the drama I could create.

I'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things.

For me, I went to NYU, and at that point, it was 1995, and everyone wanted to be Tarantino. I was writing these stupid comedies, and I felt lost.

Because my home life was nuts, I didn't look to my parents for help. I looked to my teachers. They made me who I am. They took on a parental role. They're like celebrities or heroes to me.

That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!

In our house, there was a lot of yelling. It was everyone walking in on each other and very few boundaries.

I'm terrible with titles.

I have many of the Rock Lords; Magmar, I'm obsessed with. That's a sign of how versatile the Rock Lords were, that they could come out with toys that turned into rocks.

My mom is a pack rat.

When I was nine, I got my head stuck in a bucket trying to be Darth Vader.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.

Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done.

Negative attention was better than no attention.

If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.

One of my favorite things was I got to work with Avi Arad on a movie for Sony, and we don't realize this, but he's the reason toys were sold off of cartoons, more or less. He created the Gobots!

That's what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.

Do I think technology is bad? No. I think it's wonderful that the world is so connected now. But I think, as a result, childhood ends a little earlier.