Wendi McLendon-Covey Quotes

Family is conflict and it's something that we all relate to.

A lot of what I'm obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father.

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms. . . and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

'Cake' is a simple, almost traditional and relatable story, that highlights family values and intimate relationship dynamics within a family.

We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

I can remember me and my cousin always fighting. He was a big Bulls and Michael Jordan guy.

I find that relationships between kids and parents are very interesting.

If you want any attention in the Howard household, you have to shout quite loudly and try to develop a personality.

Not having a great relationship with my brother Aaron, or what people think that relationship should be, didn't define me.

When I see siblings in some families not get along, I just struggle with that. My wife says I need to be more real about it, but I just can't believe it when it happens.

I believe that communication is the key to a happy and successful family in our society.

Naturally, Brie and I bicker, like, every 10 minutes about everything in life.

For me, 'The Goldbergs' was about surviving a crazy family - and believe me, the show is a sanitized version!

At home, my children make sure that I fall in line and march to their tune.

I love my family. We have a very rich, complicated relationship.

Once you've taken account of the quality of sibling relationships, knowing about the quality of parenting doesn't add much information.

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

Cooper and Peyton really competed a lot, they fought a lot. But Eli was so much younger. He's the little brother.

Every day, I get into fights with my brother, who is the most annoying person on the planet.

The issue you have with two competitive guys being brought up the same way is that you don't have one person who goes out of his way to make a relationship.

One thing that I've noticed about big families is that they usually break down into two camps: the talkers and the watchers.