Alex Hirsch Quotes

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!

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Think about how rare it is that you exist at all. Also think about time this way: If something exists, even for a second, then forever in the future that thing existed, and forever in the past that thing was going to exist. So to even be conscious for a millisecond is a kind of immortality, but you have more than a millisecond. You have minutes. Hours. Months. A year? Years! This is a gift.

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.

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.