Quotes from Alex Hirsch

I think Ferraris should always have roses in them, it looks amazing.

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

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

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal.

I always wanted to at least visit Dubai - it was a city that I loved to watch on the Discovery Channel. It had the world's biggest everything and clearly had a vision to stand out.

I was obsessed with the Loch Ness Monster, I would look through these books in the library and dream about visiting Loch Ness one day... That stuff was really kind of what I loved as a kid.

I was raised in the '90s. I love 'Seinfeld.'

I want to try to have as many people as possible interested in my content, so it needs to go across language barriers.

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

Ninety-nine percent of people who drive cars are not car experts.

While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.

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

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.

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.

When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of pictures with and I just remember something always went wrong.

When I went to California Institute of the Arts, I was classmates with a lot of like-minded weirdoes, some of who have gone on to create other cartoon shows-J.G. Quintel, 'Regular Show;' Pen Ward, 'Adventure Time.' We were all friends in school and pushed each other and made each other laugh.

Cliffhangers are a lot of fun, but I think they can be easily abused if you're not careful.

Not a lot of people get to say, 'I'm a cartoon character.'

A lot of celebrities love cars, and because they have the money, they get involved in the car world.

I remember when I was a kid, whenever you'd see cartoons cross over with each other, it always ranged from a delightful, magical surprise to a cynical, annoying cash grab.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

In Dubai, we spend too much of our lives in cars; we shouldn't be wasting it in something boring, but rather enjoy every minute in something we love and appreciate.

I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.