Alex Hirsch Quotes

#1. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith.

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

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#3. You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

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#4. Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.

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#5. In terms of creative engagement, I just love being able to produce, produce, produce. You don't always get it perfect, but it has much more of an improvisational element, and you learn.

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#6. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.

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#7. If you ask anyone in animation, how long they've been into animation, they'll pretty much always tell you that it's since they can remember, and I'm no exception.

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#8. My goal with Gravity Falls is to make people as paranoid and insane as I was as a child, and I'm delighted to see it's working!

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#9. Stay curious, stay weird, stay kind and don't let anyone ever tell you you aren't smart or brave or worthy enough.

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#10. When you're doing an animated series, you tend to pitch storyboards. You write a script and then you draw a comic version of that script and put it up on big boards, and then you pitch it to a big room of executives and writers.

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#11. There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.

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

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#13. Some people could say, "I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever" but that's not my taste.

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#14. I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

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#15. Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

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#16. I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

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#17. Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

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#18. A sibling is a friend for life, but they are a friend for life that you are forced to have. And like anything that you are forced to do, occasionally people will drive you crazy.

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#19. I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.

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#20. Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!

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#21. I absolutely love television. What's so great about TV is that I can tell 20 stories in a year. If I was working at a feature studio, I'd tell 1% of someone else's story, over the course of four years.

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#22. I try to be a man of mystery. I try to keep the various projects I'm up to as close to the vest as possible until it's time to reveal them.

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#23. As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

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