Alex Hirsch

I think the key as a creator is to just trust your own intuition, and follow your passion and trust that if you make something you love, an audience who loves it will find it.

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

The best way to make a show that's going to resonate is to make a show that you'd love.

When I was 12 years old, I was obsessed with codes, conspiracies, and secret messages.

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.

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

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.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

One of the interesting things about making a kids TV show is that you are in living rooms all across the world and you never know who's watching.

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 think the No. 1 lesson I learned from 'The Simpsons' was just that animation could be as funny as live-action. That animation could be funnier than live-action. That animation didn't have to just be for kids.

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.