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" Writing on 'Love' is so steeped in self-analysis. The writer's room can feel like therapy. "
Paul Rust
Writing
Love Is
Love
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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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" 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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" 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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" In high school, I was crazy in love, and I would make handmade construction paper valentines every month for our monthly anniversaries. Then I'd go early in the morning and tape one to her car. It sounds sweet, but let's be honest: it was a little weird. I was probably crossing some lines. "
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" I wrote on the fourth season of 'Arrested Development.' "
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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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Time
" Conflict comes from a person's own actions, not what someone else does to them. "
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Conflict
Someone
" 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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" 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. "
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Time
Together
" I would never turn down an invitation to co-write another Pee-wee Herman movie! "
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Down
Invitation
Movie
" 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. "
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Family
Proud
Writing
" 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.' "
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Die
Love
Friends
" I come from standup and improv. "
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Improv
Come
Standup
" 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
" Things are constantly in flux and changing, and as crazy-making as that can be, it's also the thing that can get you through tough times - 'Well, things change.' "
Paul Rust
Tough Times
Tough
Through
" I want to be liked. Everybody wants to be liked. "
Paul Rust
Everybody
Wants
Liked
" 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. "
Paul Rust
Family
Time
Love
" 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. "
Paul Rust
Broken
You
Yourself
" 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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Think
Rely
Try
" 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
" 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. "
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Never
People
Comedy
" 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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Hunting
Credit
Go
" '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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Run
Time
You
" Probably around junior high, I became obsessed with films. "
Paul Rust
Films
High
Around
" I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character. "
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Character
Single
Complexity
" I grew up loving Pee-wee Herman. I was obsessed. I was the kid at school who everyone knew was obsessed with Pee-Wee. "
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Who
Loving
School
" 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. "
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Relationship
Best
Going
" 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? "
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Mean
Problems
Myself
" I don't really like the term 'honest.' "
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Term
Really
Like
" Growing up in a small town, in the Midwest, and Catholic - those are sort of three layers of repression. "
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