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.

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Categorized in : Me Camera Negative Robots

Copyright law is too confusing.

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too copyright confusing law

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.

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i-am me home life

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.

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bride loved princess play

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.

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me crazy hate people

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.

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i-am doing dream work

I'm terrible with titles.

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titles terrible

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.

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me moment action time

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

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me family crazy believe

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

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them teachers tv how

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.

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pilot never remember people

Prior to 'The Goldbergs,' I rarely got good reviews on anything I've done.

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got anything good done

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

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hold movies some bottom

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.

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name look smile song

Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.

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rock worst car singing

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

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me singing brother song

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

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lead over free because

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

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your very family complicated

I never saw my parents kiss.

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kiss saw parents never

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.

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strangers me you mom

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.

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me family moments funny