If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.
— Adam F. Goldberg
Ever since 'The Goldbergs' began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to 'Highlander.'
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 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'm one of those writers that have always worked on multiple things.
First love is such a big thing growing up.
'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.
I never did video dating.
When I was nine, I got my head stuck in a bucket trying to be Darth Vader.
I grew up obsessively collecting Queen T-shirts and concert posters and rare U.K. imports of their CDs.
I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.
When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.
Watching Eagles games with my dad, whether at the vet or in our house, was a big part of my childhood.
Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.
The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.
My dad felt old school.
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.
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.
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.
I love 'AP Bio' - I think it's so funny - it's just not the show I want to do.
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.
I feel like, with any show, the creator should stick to it the first few years and get it off the ground.
Copyright law is too confusing.
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.
Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
My parents are interested in politics.
That's what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.
I always say that even though my dad was alive during Woodstock, he was just not invited. He just seemed like he was from a different generation.
My mom is not typical in any way.
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 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 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.
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 always wanted to meet David Hasselhoff, but I never did.
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.
I'm obsessed with musicals.
My dad would always get into fights over parking spaces. He would do this all the time.
Anyone who grew up with me knows that Queen is my favorite band of all time.
My mom is a pack rat.
That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!
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.
'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.
I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.
I think a lot of guys have their favorite shirt that they wear for years and years.
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.
