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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. "

Paul Rust

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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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Me and my comedy writer friends talk a lot about how we love 'Die Hard,' but we'll never be able to write 'Die Hard.' "

" 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. "

" My sweet spot, the stuff I like the most, is hopeful melancholy. Optimistic melancholy. "

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

" In real life, there are some times where a partner has cheated on somebody, and that person never found out about it. I have to imagine that that's happened before. It's a thing we don't really want to think about, because it's maybe the most painful thing to think about in a relationship - 'What if I've been cheated on and never knew?' "

" It made me proud to know I'd join a long gallery of actors covered in blood in movies. "

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" It's such a thrill in a relationship to be able to collaborate creatively. It's very romantic, and I like it. "

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" It's funny; before I started writing professionally, I had a job logging video footage for behind-the-scenes footage for special features. "

" Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them. "

" With so much of what I write, I'm just constantly wondering out loud, 'Do other people feel this way?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In your 20s, you're checking your bank account to make sure you're not broke. In your 30s, you're looking at yourself and realizing you're broken. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" I come from standup and improv. "

" I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.' "

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

" 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. "

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