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" 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

Who

Loving

School

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Paul Rust

College

Own

" 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. "

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

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

Paul Rust

Small

Three

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

" 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. "

Paul Rust

Remember

Movies

" 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. "

Paul Rust

Hunting

Credit

" 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?' "

Paul Rust

Comedy

You

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a great place to grow up and be raised as a kid, there wasn't a lot to do. It was fairly boring, and I think the way I either escaped the boredom or found a way to keep myself occupied was through movies and TV shows. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

Paul Rust

Thrill

Relationship

" It's a lot of people's goal to be the lead in a movie, and that was never my goal. I just wanted to be the third banana in an ensemble comedy. "

" 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! "

Paul Rust

Say

Great

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Paul Rust

Friends

Love

" With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies. "

" 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. "

" 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

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