Top 40 Alex Hirsch Quotes

The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class – they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.

My sister, when we were in Elementary school, had one particular lime green fuzzy troll doll sweater with a gem sticking out of the belly and actual hair that stuck to it, and I just remember, even though I was very young, being like ‘This is unusual. It is weird that she is wearing this in public.’

One thing that’s a lot harder to put into stories than you’d think is the idea of a traditional monster, because monsters with a capital ‘M’ don’t inherently lend themselves to a story about your character. Unless one of your characters is themselves the monster, simply having a monster leads to a chase or a hunt.

Gravity Falls’ is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

With Twitter and Tumblr, it’s easy to get lost in the tidal wave of feedback from fans.

While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

Animation’s a small industry, and no matter where you go you’re going to meet your friends from CalArts.

Gravity Falls’ was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.

I can speak to my experience and say that CalArts worked out very well for me. After CalArts, I went to Cartoon Network, and then came to Disney.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they’re not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

As a kid, I was obsessed with ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ and ‘Bone,’ and I’m certain that I’ve unconsciously ripped off ideas from both, wholesale.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn’t make me start dressing in drag.

One day I’d love to release a coffee table book of all the crazy notes I got from Disney Channel’s S&P and legal department.

A lot of kid characters you see on TV are sassy, and snarky, and think they’re just the coolest kids in the world, and are mean spirited.

When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some toilet paper tubes.

I went to art school for four years to learn a very expensive lesson – that there are many other artists who are way better than me.

I tended toward animated material that wasn’t just for kids. I could tell as a kid watching those shows that I loved the jokes that I got but I also loved the jokes I didn’t get because I felt that I was hanging out with a smarter, cooler audience.

It’s weird because we live in this age of reboots. Everything is getting rebooted: ‘The X-Files,’ ‘Twin Peaks.’ We have shows like ‘Gravity Falls’ that were inspired by these shows, that are now ending and being followed up by reboots of the shows that inspired them.

When I went to California Institute of the Arts, I was classmates with a lot of like-minded weirdoes, some of who have gone on to create other cartoon shows-J.G. Quintel, ‘Regular Show;’ Pen Ward, ‘Adventure Time.’ We were all friends in school and pushed each other and made each other laugh.

I will say this: ‘Gravity Falls’ is a show about mystery, that itch you get when you’re curious. That itself is a really cool, inspiring thing.

I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, ‘Are aliens real?’ and ‘Why won’t girls talk to me?’

I was raised in the ’90s. I love ‘Seinfeld.’

One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I’m not on any particular kind of clock.

Not a lot of people get to say, ‘I’m a cartoon character.’

I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can’t dumb it down.

Gravity Falls’ is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it’s a show about characters.

When you’re drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you’ll create a more relatable cartoon.

I was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster, I would look through these books in the library and dream about visiting Loch Ness one day… That stuff was really kind of what I loved as a kid.

I loved ‘The Simpsons’ because it didn’t talk down to its audience.

To see where I’ve stolen all my ideas from, look no further than the comics at your local comic shop!

Gravity Falls’ has so much inspiration that comes from ‘Twin Peaks,’ the idea of Agent Cooper being the one to drive Dipper and Mabel home made me feel like, yeah, they’re going to be all right.

I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I’ve had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it’s actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak, cartoon-obsessed kindergartner to control-freak, cartoon-obsessed executive producer.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don’t know what’s going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

Gravity Falls’ didn’t just appear overnight – every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.

I personally went canvassing door to door in a local race when I was in high school and thought it was kind of hilarious how worked up people got over such small stakes elections.

When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.

I remember when I was a kid, whenever you’d see cartoons cross over with each other, it always ranged from a delightful, magical surprise to a cynical, annoying cash grab.

With the finale episode of ‘Gravity Falls’ our job as storytellers is to finish all the things we’ve started.