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

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 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.

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.

'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.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

My parents are interested in politics.

I had 'Breaking In' at Fox, and that was a constant stopping and starting of getting canceled and picked up again.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

That's what Flyers fans are all about. My favorite thing about Philly fans is booing their own team.