Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

Stephen Hillenburg

Profession : Actor

Birth : August 21, 1961

When you set out to do a show about a sponge, you can't anticipate this kind of craze. We just try to make ourselves laugh, then ask ourselves if it's appropriate for children.

Stephen Hillenburg

SpongeBob is an innocent, and people respond to an innocent. I don't think it matters if you're young or old.

Stephen Hillenburg

When SpongeBob's perseverance shines through, and you root for him - that's when the show is working.

Stephen Hillenburg

For me personally, snorkeling in a cove in Hawaii, floating along, and looking at all the animals and the colors - I mean, that's pretty peaceful.

Stephen Hillenburg

For some reason, not many women go into cartooning.

Stephen Hillenburg

SpongeBob represents idiocy. He is dumb. Patrick is dumb. Mr. Krabs is greedy. Squidward is a snob and vain.

Stephen Hillenburg

Generally, we try not to write down to kids. We really just try to write a visual, character-driven cartoon that has a lot of slapstick and really appeals to us. I guess we are just lucky that other adults find that amusing, too.

Stephen Hillenburg

A lot of things came out of my interest in marine biology, like the fact that there are scallops that fly in the air, and in SpongeBob's world, scallops swim the same way in the ocean.

Stephen Hillenburg

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

Stephen Hillenburg

We wanted the humor to come from the characters and their world - you go down there to escape the world up here for a while. So when the crew would write jokes that would refer to American TV or culture, I'd just eliminate them because it just seemed odd that SpongeBob would know about it.

Stephen Hillenburg

I'm hoping that fans will enjoy finally having a 'SpongeBob' comic book from me. All the stories will be original and always true to the humor, characters, and universe of the 'SpongeBob SquarePants' series.

Stephen Hillenburg

It's always great to hear adults say they can stand to watch our show.

Stephen Hillenburg

I think the source of SpongeBob's humour is classic, and that's always appealing.

Stephen Hillenburg

Laurel and Hardy are among my strongest influences, and I think they're perfect examples of two naive, kid-like characters that are still funny today. In fact, they're a lot like SpongeBob and Patrick, walking around in their own little world and causing a fine mess.

Stephen Hillenburg

I thought, well, what about a show that stars undersea creatures, and some of the ones you rarely see animated. So, from there, I just started drawing different animals in a kind of a setting that was this nautical world. It's not realistic but sort of a fantastic environment.

Stephen Hillenburg

I drew these natural sponges for a while and gave them googly eyes, and it didn't come together until I drew a sink sponge one day. I thought, 'This is the guy.' He's the square peg, literally, in this world of animals.

Stephen Hillenburg

SpongeBob is a kid living an adult life. He has a job. Kids think being a fry cook is a great job.

Stephen Hillenburg

In the spring of 1996, I was working for Nickelodeon on a show called 'Rocko's Modern Life,' and I was interested at the time in doing a show about the ocean, an undersea show.

Stephen Hillenburg