Alex Hirsch

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. ”

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy. ”

I spent 90 percent of my childhood playing SNES and N64, and my favorite games were the ones packed with secrets. ”