Paul Rust Quotes

I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

The fact that people still talk and obsess about 'Twin Peaks', more than twenty years after the fact, is a great validation for what we thought we had going at the time.

'Anchorman' is my favorite movie of all time and Ron Burgundy is one of my favorite characters of all time. It's my 'Gone With the Wind.'

A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.

I had no idea it was going to be like this. People come up to me all the time, but it's never, 'Oh, you're Sheryl Lee.' It's, 'Oh my gosh, you're Laura Palmer.'

I turned down 'Forrest Gump.'

When they made 'Rocky Horror' in the '70s, they had no idea it would become this 41-year phenomenon that it has become.

I grew up loving Pee-wee Herman. I was obsessed. I was the kid at school who everyone knew was obsessed with Pee-Wee.

Even before the movie was made, people already thought I was the original Lurch.

The special thing about 'Star Wars' is you can come to it and become a fan at any age. It's such an interesting franchise. I wasn't lucky enough to see it as a young kid, and I didn't have any older siblings that loved it and made me want to watch it, too.

A 'Guardians' sequel and a 'Gilmore Girls' reboot right at the same time was really awesome.

Along with 'Wet Hot American Summer' and 'The Room,' 'Lebowski' belongs in the canon of nouveau cult classics.

They literally have what they would call "a four-quadrant" movie that they could just release at any moment. Parents want to go there, kids want to go there, hipsters want to go there. It's like everyone will want to see it.

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

'Street Legal' is like a cult classic. It's pretty cheesy at times, but you learn to embrace it.

I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.

Amitabh Bachchan's role in 'Deewar'… I'd love to do that if someone does a remake.

Rufio's a great iconic character for a certain generation and definitely something I'm always associated with, proud to be associated with which is cool.

Are the Simpsons cool? They are, and that is crude 2D animation.

The word 'cult' is almost a nice way of saying a lot of people hate you, or have never heard of you. It means someone can come up to me in the street who's really into my stuff, who's seen everything I've done, but the guy standing beside them has no idea who I am. Even in Glasgow. I think that's cult.

I think 'Eerie, Indiana' is a show for young people.

Snake Plissken walks in the room, any young actor is going to be a bit speechless.

The Room' has just been something that has spread for so many years in such an organic way because, it's just people wanting to share it with their friends and take people to the theater to see it.

'The Muppet Show' spoke to me at 5, and it speaks to me in my late 30s in the same way.