Retro Pop Culture Quotes

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

The Goonies' I love. 'Heathers' too.

When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.

No one picked on me for my lunch money. Probably because it was the 1980s and no one had lunch money.

With 'Space Dandy,' you've obviously got your image of the space and 80s music, and blending them together is how I created it.

I'll run into somebody, and of all the movies I've done, they may say something about 'Back to the Future' or whatever, but then they make reference to 'Clue' very favorably.

If you wanna see me in full '80s glory, I did one season of 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'

Some people said my acting was a cross between Euell Gibbons, Rodney Allen Rippy and Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.

I grew up on all of the great spy movies and TV series of the Sixties - not just Bond, but Derek Flint and the Avengers and Modesty Blaise and the Man from UNCLE and on and on. Every time I sit down to work on Cinderella, I'm writing a love letter to all of those characters.

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

I was a '90s kid, so I missed 'Jem and the Holograms.' But once I delved into the whole world of it, I realized it's iconic. There's incredible dancing in the movie, too.

Everyone in the '80s grew up, and for a lot of the film executives, that's what they know and love.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.