Paul Rust

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“I come from standup and improv.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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 remember doing this little physical gesture of holding up my foot and having my foot wave around while I held my ankle. It got a big laugh, and when people started laughing, it dumped some chemicals on my brain. It just felt so good.”

“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.”

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

“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.'”

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

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