Quotes

I was so obsessed with 'The Princess Bride.' I loved it so much that I even have a re-enactment I did of a radio play of the iocane powder scene.

I remember running down the hallway screaming 'We're Not Gonna Take It.' It was really one of those childhood anthems that really stirred you up and made you want to rebel.

My dad felt old school.

I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.

It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.

'Breaking In' is a very different office comedy and a caper comedy. Aside from 'Chuck,' there is no half-hour comedy that does stuff like that.

Anyone who grew up with me knows that Queen is my favorite band of all time.

When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.

I was definitely more of a movie/cartoon guy than comics, but I really do like graphic novels - I don't have the time to sit down and read Stephen King like I used to, so I find picking up 'Saga' every now and then and just diving back into it is a great way to stay reading.

My mom was a shopaholic. She can literally never wear the same thing twice. That's fine with me.

'Afterlife With Archie' - they're doing a great job.

My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties.

I'm obsessed with musicals.

I followed Evan's career through the '90s and went to many Lemonheads concerts in N.Y.C. Since he was my best friend's family, he always felt like my family in a weird way.

Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.

I'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.

My brother was a huge Tim Kerr fan. He loved the way Kerr would power to the net, and he related to that playing style.

I think the '80s works for a TV show because it's the last time the world was simple. It was before the Internet really changed everything and made the world really small.

Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.

That's what I did whenever I loved a movie: I'd get together with my friends and play it out and re-enact it.

I've never made a show that goes right on the air and is perfect. People don't remember, but the original 'Goldbergs' pilot was poorly received, and I had to retool that for ABC, where it eventually became a hit.

I was in college starting in '95, and 'Rent' was the only show I could see - because if you waited in line and camped out, you could try to get the lottery tickets.

For me, every show that's about teachers - and there's been a number of them - they're like misfits who hate the kids and don't want to be there and hate their jobs. For me, having crazy parents, my teachers were the sane people who raised me, and they liked being there.

The only interaction I had with my brothers is like negative attention where I'd basically egg them on into beating me up - which was delightful! Otherwise, it was me with a video camera jumping on a bed pretending to be the Ultimate Warrior or setting up my robots making a Transformers movie because I was a lonely kid.

All of my family members have had moments where they're upset with me because I'll cavalierly write a story just to be funny.