33 Quotes by Theodore Melfi

I think math is exciting, you know.

I grew up in Brooklyn, in what I now know was poverty. Sharing a tiny bedroom with my two brothers, eating government cheese and passing down sneakers until they were unpassable... I simply thought the whole world lived as such, especially in pre-gentrified Williamsburg of the 1980s.

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

The concept of 'family' has changed so much. It's not just 'mom and dad' anymore. It's 'mom and mom' and 'dad and dad,' and it's kind of beautiful.

People live in the middle. I think everyone does. Good is on one side, bad is on the other side, and we live in the middle.