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Paul Rust

Profession : Actor

Birth : April 12, 1981

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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I want to give every single character the dimensions and complexity of a main character.

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

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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.

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A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

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

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

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I think it's sort of rare in TV shows or movies to see people being vulnerable. That's sort of scary to an audience.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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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.'

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

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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.

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