I grew up in Le Mars, Iowa, and even though it's a... -Paul Rust

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.

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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 ...

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 ea...

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I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids....

Many times I'll improvise it, which isn't done a lot in movies or commercials. But a lot of my commercials are improvised....

People in third-world countries are less eager to see movies full of angst over existential problems, and who can blame them. They've got other fish t...

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studio...

The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where ...

In the kind of films that I do, there is an extremely limited number of people that can improvise. The reason the ensemble continues in the movies is ...

I'm frustrated with Hollywood and television and the movies because they see science fiction as an excuse for eye candy, for lots of great special eff...

I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made....

I'd loved 'Iron Man,' you know, with a passion. I thought that was the most fresh, cool thing, in terms of superhero movies, that I'd seen in a long t...

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and...