Top 82 Quotes & Sayings by Adam F. Goldberg
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American producer Adam F. Goldberg.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
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.
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.
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'm envious of 'Glee' - artists turned their libraries over for free because they knew it would lead to album sales.
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 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.
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.
On TV, teachers are comedically jaded. That's not how I saw them.
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.
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.
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 never saw my parents kiss.
Queen is my all-time favorite band in history. I was an obsessive growing up after I discovered them at 10 at summer camp.
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 dad felt old school.
I'm terrible with titles.
My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'
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.
That's what happens when they give guys like me a television show: you try and get toys and Garbage Pail Kids!
That's what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.
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.
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.
My rap name as a kid was Big Tasty.
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.
As a family, we all loved the Flyers. To me, rooting for the Flyers were how I bonded with my dad especially.
I ended up going to NYU for film school - close to Pennsylvania - but we talked about what if I went to UCLA or USC, and my mom's whole world was caving in.
'Afterlife With Archie' - they're doing a great job.
Copyright law is too confusing.
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.
I like being surrounded by all the stuff that makes me feel creative and inspires me.
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.
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.
My mom was always writing me notes to get me out of stuff.
Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.
Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done.
When you hire directors, you're most concerned about whether or not someone from the outside will get the jokes.
I've been with my wife since I was 16.
My mom was a shopaholic. She can literally never wear the same thing twice. That's fine with me.
The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.
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!
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.
My mom is a pack rat.
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.
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.
If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.
Negative attention was better than no attention.
Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.
My mom is not typical in any way.
I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.
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 parents are interested in politics.
In our house, there was a lot of yelling. It was everyone walking in on each other and very few boundaries.
It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.
Some of my movies hold the bottom rankings on Rotten Tomatoes.
Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.
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.
Watching Eagles games with my dad, whether at the vet or in our house, was a big part of my childhood.
'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.
For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!
I think a lot of guys have their favorite shirt that they wear for years and years.
Related Authors
Declan Donnelly Quotes
English
Producer
Ekta Kapoor Quotes
Indian
Producer
Gauri Khan Quotes
Indian
Producer
J. Michael Straczynski Quotes
American
Producer
James Wan Quotes
Australian
Producer
Jason Blum Quotes
American
Producer
Jimmy Iovine Quotes
American
Producer
Julie Plec Quotes
American
Producer
Noah Hawley Quotes
American
Producer
Noel Edmonds Quotes
English
Producer
Paul Heyman Quotes
American
Producer
Roger Ross Williams Quotes
American
Producer
Samuel Goldwyn Quotes
American
Producer
Shonda Rhimes Quotes
American
Producer
Travis Knight Quotes
American
Producer
Troy Carter Quotes
American
Producer