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Alex Hirsch Quotes
Alex Hirsch Quotes
Alex Hirsch
American
Writer
Born:
Jun 18
,
1985
About
Falls
Love
Me
Think
You
I've never pitched a joke that I wouldn't be comfortable seeing in a Pixar film.
Alex Hirsch
Joke
Seeing
Never
Comfortable
Pixar
Film
With shows like 'The X-Files' or 'Eerie, Indiana' - even though they would have comedic moments, even though they would have character moments - there was a sincerity about magic.
Alex Hirsch
Character
Though
Would
Indiana
Magic
About
Like
Sincerity
Comedic
Moments
Even
Shows
A lot of the fun of 'Gravity Falls' comes from the secrecy surrounding the plot. We want fans to be able to guess and speculate, to be surprised by twists and be engaged when they get things right.
Alex Hirsch
Fans
Guess
Secrecy
Plot
Able
Surprised
Falls
Lot
Surrounding
Get
Want
Engaged
Fun
Right
Things
Gravity
Twists
Speculate
I always designed 'Gravity Falls' to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.
Alex Hirsch
Beginning
About
Finite
Always
Falls
End
Middle
Epic
Series
Designed
Gravity
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
Sometimes
Own
Think
I Think
Given
Develop
Feel
Like
Identities
Same
Being
Mold
Twins
Start
Chance
Gravity Falls' was a labor of love, but like all labor it could be painful at times.
Alex Hirsch
Love
Could
Like
Falls
Labor
Times
Painful
Gravity
It's always fun to write the little bit of TV that the characters watch in 'Gravity Falls,' because it's a perfect place to poke fun at the media.
Alex Hirsch
Bit
Characters
TV
Perfect
Write
Poke
Because
Always
Falls
Place
Little
Little Bit
Fun
Media
Gravity
Watch
Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
Alex Hirsch
Mysteries
First
Characters
Magic
About
Falls
Foremost
Show
Gravity
I spent many years of my childhood pondering the great mysteries like, 'Are aliens real?' and 'Why won't girls talk to me?'
Alex Hirsch
Great
Me
Alien
Girl
Mysteries
Spent
Like
Talk
Real
Years
Childhood
Many
Why
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.
Alex Hirsch
Myself
Good
Doubt
Would
Tried
No Doubt
Direct
Never
Had
Executive
Fairly
Executive Producer
Learn
Line
Been
Lot
Producer
Doubted
Turns
Lucky
Actually
Applied
The best way to make a show that's going to resonate is to make a show that you'd love.
Alex Hirsch
Love
Best
You
Resonate
Way
Best Way
Make
Going
Show
I tended toward animated material that wasn't just for kids. I could tell as a kid watching those shows that I loved the jokes that I got but I also loved the jokes I didn't get because I felt that I was hanging out with a smarter, cooler audience.
Alex Hirsch
Jokes
Kid
Those
Kids
Out
Tell
Could
Animated
Toward
Smarter
Also
Because
Felt
Audience
Got
Material
Get
Hanging
Just
Loved
Cooler
Shows
Watching
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. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons.
Alex Hirsch
You
Remember
Long
Drawing
Tell
No Exception
Cartoons
Pretty
Exception
Animation
Since
Always
How
Been
Just
Anyone
Loved
Ask
Much
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.
Alex Hirsch
Funny
Just Be
Lesson
Think
I Think
Kids
Could
Animation
Simpsons
Learned
Than
Just
The Simpsons
Funnier
Cute animals have a pretty good track record in animation for inspiring passionate fandom.
Alex Hirsch
Good
Animals
Cute
Record
Pretty
Pretty Good
Inspiring
Animation
Track
Track Record
Passionate
Animation's a small industry, and no matter where you go you're going to meet your friends from CalArts.
Alex Hirsch
You
Matter
Meet
Small
Animation
Industry
Go
Friends
Going
Where
Your
I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
Alex Hirsch
Remember
Way
Kid
I Remember
Scared
More
Adult
Go
Bump
Being
Being Scared
Things
Night
Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.
Alex Hirsch
You
World
Every
Follows
Scary
Split
Emotionally
Put
New
Know
Foreign
End
Up
End Of The World
Endings
Going
New World
Where
Happen
Place
Next
You don't have to sugar coat things for kids. If you make something for them with intelligence they will show that intelligence in ways that will sometimes shock you.
Alex Hirsch
You
Intelligence
Sometimes
Will
Sugar
Ways
Kids
Something
Make
Shock
Them
Show
Coat
Things
Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.
Alex Hirsch
Wrapped
Mystery
Puzzle
Falls
Tucked
Riddle
Enigma
Gravity
Sauce
One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.
Alex Hirsch
Nice
Kind
TV
TV Show
About
Particular
Particular Kind
Clock
Any
Anymore
Working
Show
Nice Things
Things
When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.
Alex Hirsch
You
Living
Write
Feel
Like
Begins
Scripts
Them
I always thought, if I was gonna make a kids show, I would want to make something that my own 12-year-old self would love. So, I put all that in a blender and stewed it together to create 'Gravity Falls.'
Alex Hirsch
Love
Together
Thought
Own
Kids
Would
Something
My Own
Self
Put
Blender
Make
Always
Falls
Want
Gonna
Create
Show
Gravity
I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.
Alex Hirsch
Love
You
Three
New Things
I Love
Something
Idea
New
Continuously
Times
Notice
Twice
Things
Four
Watch
When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.
Alex Hirsch
Evidence
David
David Letterman
Since
Did
Burned
Video
Show
Letterman
While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.
Alex Hirsch
Me
Waiting
School
Lying
Everyone
Out
Take
While
Elementary
Elementary School
Playing
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