Latest Alex Hirsch Quotes from Interviews

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.

Alex Hirsch

People, Forever, Taste

"'See you next summer': Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.

Alex Hirsch

Looks, Significance, Audience

"'See you next summer': Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
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.

Alex Hirsch

Impact, People, Looks

"'See you next summer': Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.

Alex Hirsch

Insanity, Individual, Relentless

Source: www.avclub.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Thinking, Identity, Mold

Source: www.avclub.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Men, Trying, Vests

Source: www.avclub.com
Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.

Alex Hirsch

Together, Nerves, Our Family

Source: www.avclub.com
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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Tv Shows, Missing, Tears

Source: www.avclub.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Sibling, Crazy, People

Source: www.avclub.com
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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Thinking, Ideas, Trying

Source: www.avclub.com
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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Kids, Zenith, X Files

Source: www.avclub.com
I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.

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Believe, Fall, Phones

Source: www.avclub.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Love Is, Perfect, Creative

Source: collider.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Years, Stories, Television

Source: collider.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Writing, Animated Series, Boards

Source: collider.com
The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.

Alex Hirsch

Worry, Creative, Scary

Source: collider.com
I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of gold on the other side, try to reach it, fall through a trap door, go through a tube, wind up in a biscuit tin, and be trapped. My mom, encouraging my madness, told me that the leprechaun might escape and that I needed a shot glass of whiskey down there to keep him occupied while he was in there.

Alex Hirsch

Mom, Fall, Glasses

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

Alex Hirsch

Unique, Twins, Wonder

Source: collider.com
I feel like the best kids shows aren't just for kids. The best kids shows have something in it for everyone. As you grow up, you're increasingly proud to be a fan of the show, rather than getting to an age where you suddenly become embarrassed that you ever liked it because it's only for seven-year-olds.

Alex Hirsch

Growing Up, Kids, Years

Source: collider.com
The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.

Alex Hirsch

Real, Kids, Remember

Source: collider.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Drawing, Long, Lucky

Source: collider.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Dad, Character, Kids

Source: collider.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Growing Up, Character, Drawing

Source: collider.com
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.

Alex Hirsch

Long, Remember, Animation

Source: collider.com
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!

Alex Hirsch

Children, Fall, People

"Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.

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Born: June 18, 1985
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