Quotes

Ever since 'The Goldbergs' began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to 'Highlander.'

My mom was always writing me notes to get me out of stuff.

Anything that I love, I love to the extreme. I'm obsessive. If it's 'Star Wars,' if it's 'Transformers,' if it's the Flyers, I geek out.

Convincing Robert Englund to come out of retirement to play Freddy Krueger one last time is a true bucket-list moment for me as a writer. I've been a longtime obsessive fan, collecting Freddy artwork and action figures.

My parents are interested in politics.

There was kind of a no-nonsense parenting style that my parents had that was true of the time. Everything now... there are books, and there are websites, and there are blogs, and you're reading, and there's research. We're such an interconnected world now, and half the stuff they did was pretty terrible, but we somehow turned out fine.

If I don't call my mom back, she'll go on Twitter and say, 'Adam hasn't called me. I'm worried about him,' and strangers will say, 'You're horrible. You go call your mom right now!' It's very complicated.

Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.

I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do.

I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.

My dad would always get into fights over parking spaces. He would do this all the time.

I've been with my wife since I was 16.

I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'

My mom is not typical in any way.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

I would make hockey movies: I would edit together Flyers games and do highlight reels of goals or fights, which I still have to this day.

I am a Gobot junkie, and I pitched the Gobots movie as an animated movie a few years ago, and we're trying to work something out now that the rights are cleared. But that's my dream project, besides 'The Goldbergs' - doing a Gobots movie.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!

I never did video dating.

On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.

Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.

'The Wonder Years' family was the kind where everything seemed to be bubbling and simmering with the occasional explosion. There were a lot of things that went unsaid in that family. In my family, everything is said - on the surface, you scream and yell about it, and three minutes later, you're all friends.