Fogelman Quotes

#1. I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and takes her on a cross-country road trip, and I wanted to actually take the trip with my mom to see what it would be like to drive cross-country with your mom.

Dan Fogelman

#2. (Desk sex can be very, very good, but it's important to remove the staplers first.)

Sylvain Reynard

#3. I'd always thought that, in all the great sci-fi constructs, there's always the guy who seems like he's the commander, but then you reveal that there's an even bigger puppet master up above and beyond him.

Dan Fogelman

#4. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Dorothy Allison

#5. A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

Dan Fogelman

#6. To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men!

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#7. I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.

Dan Fogelman

#8. It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.

Billy Joel

#9. I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.

Dan Fogelman

#10. Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.

Dan Fogelman

#11. Love me. My head is so bad tonight. Love me. Love me.

Stephen King

#12. If something good was happening in my life, I'd call my mom to let her know. If something bad was happening, she'd be somebody whose advice I would seek out. We had a very good relationship, but she drove me crazy, all the time. But, she drove me crazy in a loving way.

Dan Fogelman

#13. I swear to God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my honour to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end. And indeed he does not want my help; you do not know him as I do; he is safe, he is quite safe; mark my words, he will never more be heard of. ~Jekyll

Robert Louis Stevenson

#14. I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.

Dan Fogelman

#15. Night and the day, when united,
Bring forth the beautiful light.

Victor Hugo

#16. Does anybody find it creepy how many Grant robots have been on the show? Is it just me or he like trying to clone himself and make a little army?

Kari Byron

#17. I had to beat him up in front of everybody for threatening me.

David Haye

#18. It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Felix Frankfurter

#19. They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in. All I had to do was write a character that was like my mom, and it made my life easier.

Dan Fogelman

#20. Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the end, it's that moment where you're crying because of that core relationship.

Dan Fogelman