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" I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. "
Paul Rust
Your
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" Growing up in Iowa, there weren't many people who looked like me. And then when I moved out to L.A., every guy in comedy looked like me. "
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" My mom did this really cool thing: when 'Pulp Fiction' came out on video, she made, like, a 'mommy edit.' She took two VCRs and dubbed 'Pulp Fiction' from one tape to the next and edited out all the parts she thought were unsuitable for a kid. It was basically, like, the opening and ending credits. "
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" I come from standup and improv. "
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" I gotta say, the Catholic Church has churned out a lot of great artists and directors and actors, so if that's all they do, that's fine by me. If they're good at churning out tortured artists, that's great! "
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" It would be easy for someone to think growing up in a small town would be like 'Footloose' or something, that it would be, 'No dancing allowed!' all the time, but it was quite the opposite. People always got excited for me and my successes and supported me even though I was a little weirdo goofball. "
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" I try not to rely on pop culture references as a crutch for jokes, because then, I think, that's when the timelessness quality is lost. "
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" I remember watching Quentin Tarantino accept an Academy Award for screenwriting for 'Pulp Fiction.' If I'd known then that 15 years later one of his movies would again be nominated for an Oscar and I'd be in it - that would be pretty crazy. "
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" It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies. "
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Blood
Know
Me
" I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change. "
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Mad
Philosophy
Change
" With so much of what I write, I'm just constantly wondering out loud, 'Do other people feel this way?' "
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" The thing I always liked about 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' was Pee-wee's, obviously, an oddball, but nobody in that universe points a finger at him and goes, 'Look at the weirdo!' I think that's why weirdo, arty kids like it so much: because it's sort of like a utopia. "
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Universe
Adventure
Look
" The challenge in writing a show that's about people and their flaws is that it can easily tip over - okay, I'll sometimes watch something, and there will be characters that are written in a way that I'll know that the writer just hates human beings. They're expressing this misanthropic point of view with these detestable characters. "
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Challenge
Know
View
" Judd Apatow and Paul Reubens are two people who I'd be more than happy to learn from because I think they're geniuses at what they do. "
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Happy
Learn
Two People
" Every day, I thanked my lucky stars that I got to work with Gillian Jacobs, who is such an amazing actor and brings so much depth to everything that we do. "
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Work
Day
Every Day
" The first text I ever got was somebody breaking plans on a first date. That was, like, the worst way to be introduced to a new technology is with rejection. "
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Plans
Way
Worst
" I remember doing this little physical gesture of holding up my foot and having my foot wave around while I held my ankle. It got a big laugh, and when people started laughing, it dumped some chemicals on my brain. It just felt so good. "
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Laugh
Remember
People
" I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie! "
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Down
Invitation
Movie
" I love watching movies. That's, like, my favorite thing to do with friends. "
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Like
Friends
Love
" Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression. "
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Small
Three
Up
" I'm not the first person to talk about this, but L.A. is just sort of a weird city because it's just a bunch of little towns put together under the umbrella of L.A. So people feel disconnected from each other and far apart, and in a relationship, that can also be a thing. "
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" I've noticed, as a comedy fan, that I really like Paul Thomas Anderson or Quentin Tarantino because when they're funny, they're actually funny. It's not like when other dramatic writers have comedy, and I'm just like, 'Well, that's not funny. Why are you even trying to make a joke here?' "
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You
" Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them. "
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" The Magic Castle is not a place that people know nationally, but as soon as you move to L.A., you hear people talk about it. "
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You
Talk
" I grew up in Iowa, so I would go hunting. I took a hunter's safety course in eighth grade to get extra credit in school. "
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" The thing that I get most excited about is that it does feel like a new realm of storytelling is being created before everybody's eyes. You can do something that's not exactly a movie and not exactly a TV show, something in between. "
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Eyes
New
Feel
" Love takes a lot of work. "
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Takes
Lot
" If you read scripts, you would see people rarely speak like that in real life, in complete sentences. "
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People
" Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films. "
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Films
High
Around
" Scott Aukerman and Judd Apatow are two people who I owe a lot to, and it's always great to work with Scott whenever I can. "
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Two
Always
People
" 'Cannonball Run II' - you watch that, and it looks like they're having a good time, but it's not necessarily a masterpiece. "
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