Dan Fogelman

I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and…

— Dan Fogelman

I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from…

— Dan Fogelman

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

— Dan Fogelman

A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I…

— Dan Fogelman

My first jobs were at Pixar and John Lasseter just doing animation would always allow actors to do that, and then animate…

— Dan Fogelman

They always say, doing what I do for a living, write what you know and then people will respond to it. I…

— Dan Fogelman

Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in…

— Dan Fogelman

I couldn't understand her [my mother's] wiring, all the time. I couldn't understand how she denied herself pleasure and enjoyment in life.…

— Dan Fogelman

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

— Dan Fogelman

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…

— Dan Fogelman

Some of my favorite movies have explored the father-son dynamic, in a very loving way. It can be complicated, but at the…

— Dan Fogelman

If something good was happening in my life, I'd call my mom to let her know. If something bad was happening, she'd…

— Dan Fogelman

I was trying to get the slightly more cinematic version of my relationship with my mom, which I think was a really…

— Dan Fogelman

“And suddenly I was an accountant who was popping out of bed in the morning, excited to get to work. That doesn't…

— Dan Fogelman