Alex Hirsch Quotes

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Alex Hirsch

Profession : Writer

Birth : June 18, 1985

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

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

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My sister, when we were in Elementary school, had one particular lime green fuzzy troll doll sweater with a gem sticking out of the belly and actual hair that stuck to it, and I just remember, even though I was very young, being like 'This is unusual. It is weird that she is wearing this in public.'

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

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The puberty train came late to the station for me. I was the shortest kid in my sixth-grade class - they made me pose for the yearbook with the tallest kid for comedic contrast.

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I think good kids TV has got to have layers. It has to have compelling characters that everyone loves, but you can't dumb it down.

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When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some toilet paper tubes.

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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.

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

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I was a radio presenter in Dubai for five years.

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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.

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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.

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I always designed 'Gravity Falls' to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.

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When me and my sister were growing up, we just had very different personalities. I was sort of analytical and took myself too seriously, and she was sort of goofy and nuts and full of love - too much love, she had a crush on a different guy every week.

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

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Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.

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As long as I can recall I've always wanted to make cartoons.

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Only one per cent of the world actually care about the full-on technical specs of a car. Most people want to know how cool it looks, what gadgets it has, what the buttons do, what it's like to drive and what it sounds like.

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I speak in relatable terms, without too much car lingo, so more and more people can engage with the car world. And I'm not afraid to ask questions on behalf of a whole community of people who want to learn but are afraid they'll be shut down.

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

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