Quotes About Nostalgia

When I was 6 years old I went to my first A's game at the Coliseum. It was the 1982 season and the A's went on to finish fifth in the American League West that year.

The best basketball game I ever played was probably when I was in the fifth grade.

I had the Foo Fighters' 'Live at Hyde Park' DVD, and my dad had the AC/DC box set, and I used to watch them all the time.

If you put a camera on the wall, you would laugh at some of the fights me and my brothers had.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

You can figure out who you were by which movies you loved when.

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.

Whenever my parents got married, my dad had a mullet. Me and my dad are very similar-type people with the way we look and the way we act, and I figured if he could get away with it when he was around 25, then I could try to do the same thing.

I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

I do remember watching the cartoon, 'Rambo,' and I had some of the action figures.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

When I'm making sentimental trancey fluffiness, I like to have some equally saccharine aromas filling the room.

We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up on Amblin movies. They're a part of who I am as a filmmaker and, arguably, as a person.

I was brought up on American films.

I always liked Disney films. To this day I think 'Bambi' is great.

Growing up, I remember the 'Cheers' finale and 'M*A*S*H' and all these amazing finales, and I remember them being very, very important.

One of my favorite Finals was actually Detroit vs. Los Angeles, because it was home and home for me, personally. It was like my childhood home and my second home.

I can count on one hand and maybe a couple of fingers on another the number of players I'll keep in touch with after my playing career is over.

I loved the Fonz as a kid. He just clicked his fingers and the girls would go wild.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

I find going back through things sometimes exhilarating because I find things I didn't know I had, and sometimes it's very off putting because there are things I never quite finished, and there's nothing at all to do about it now.