84 Quotes by Alex Hirsch

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.

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 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.

Gravity Falls' is a very hard show to produce.

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.

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

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

I loved 'The X-Files.'

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.