A biography for Adam F. Goldberghasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It's very complicated to literally put your family on TV.”
“Being from Philadelphia, 'Parents Just Don't Understand' was a big deal - I have audio of my brother and me singing that song.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“'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.”
“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.”
“Ever since 'The Goldbergs' began, one of my dreams was to write a homage to 'Highlander.'”
“Negative attention was better than no attention.”
“Watching Eagles games with my dad, whether at the vet or in our house, was a big part of my childhood.”
“My mom is a pack rat.”
“Jeff Garlin is essentially my dad.”
“If you Google a list and just see all the movies that came out in 1984, they're classics, and they define that decade.”
“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.”
“My parents are interested in politics.”
“Copyright law is too confusing.”
“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.”