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" I watched 'Freaks and Geeks,' and I was like, 'Oh, if you write about your own personal experiences, and if you're specific about it both in what happened and how you felt about it, it can make for scenes that are really compelling.' For the rest of college, I was basically ripping off 'Freaks and Geeks' with plays I wrote and stuff like that. "

" I grew up loving Pee-wee Herman. I was obsessed. I was the kid at school who everyone knew was obsessed with Pee-Wee. "

Paul Rust

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Loving

School

" Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films. "

" The first three times we met, I don't think I remembered anything. I was just in this daze like, 'Oh my gosh, I'm sitting here with Paul Reubens.' And I kept almost calling him Pee-wee. "

" 'Cannonball Run II' - you watch that, and it looks like they're having a good time, but it's not necessarily a masterpiece. "

" Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy. "

" If I'm not emotionally stable, should I put myself in a relationship? Because wouldn't that mean that I'm just using it as a distraction from my problems? "

" Some people have interpreted the title of the show - 'Love' - as ironic. For me, it's sincere. The idea that we have to agree with love is a genuine statement about love. "

" I love watching movies. That's, like, my favorite thing to do with friends. "

Paul Rust

Friends

Love

" 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. "

" I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie! "

" 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. "

" At one point, I just decided that it might be more creatively rewarding to put my time into writing on stuff that I could really be proud of rather than trying to get a one-episode part on 'Modern Family' or something. "

" I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows a bit. "

" 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. "

" Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression. "

Paul Rust

Small

Three

" Most relationships probably start with people going, 'Meh, it's probably best not to be embarking in this relationship.' We do it, though, because our brains are wired to make babies or whatever. "

" 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. "

" I don't believe in love at first sight. "

" I'm married now, but I fell in love with my wife because she was talented. Talent - it's the big one. "

" I was going to go to a midnight screening of 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' in college, and it's the sort of thing where people dress up. So I got dressed up, and then I got lost. I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over while I was wearing a Pee-wee suit. That's a hard ticket to get out of. "

Paul Rust

Dress

People

" In real life, a relationship takes a long time. Either somebody is involved with somebody else, and that's ending, or somebody's hung up on an ex, or your job isn't going right, and so you're focused more on that than relationships. It just takes a lot for two people to get together. "

" 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. "

" It's tough - and I'm not the first person to say this - but cliches exist because they actually happen in real life. "

" I was such a fan of Quentin's growing up. I remembered I wanted to see 'Pulp Fiction' so badly, but my mom had seen it, and even though she loved it, she just thought it wasn't appropriate for a 13-year-old. "

Paul Rust

She

Mom

" I don't really like the term 'honest.' "

Paul Rust

Term

Really

" The thing that I like about Pee-wee is it can exist on the level of midnight college cult movies that the hip kids are into and, at the same time, it could be something a kid and his family watch together. Being able to straddle both lines of being subversive and, at the same time, very inclusive - I love that about the character. "

" I always liked the 'Mad Men' philosophy where people don't really change. "

" I came of age right around the time that the sort of priced-to-own VHS world began, and so the movies that you really enjoyed, you were able to kind of watch as many times as you wanted. "

" It's been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don't necessarily match my outsides... People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, and I'm like, 'I can't. I'm sorry.' "

Paul Rust

Sorry

People