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As long as I could hold a pencil, I was drawing and telling stories and making jokes. I've just been lucky that no one ever stopped me, and now I can do that for a living.

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Alex Hirsch
Age: 39
Born: 1985
Born: June 18
Actor
Animator
Screenwriter
Storyboard Artist
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Piedmont
California
Alexander Robert Hirsch
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I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.
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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.
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Some people could say, I'd like something that's super dramatic and miserable and made me cry and made me sad forever but that's not my taste.
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Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere.
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I feel like the best kids shows aren't just for kids. The best kids shows have something in it for everyone. As you grow up, you're increasingly proud to be a fan of the show, rather than getting to an age where you suddenly become embarrassed that you ever liked it because it's only for seven-year-olds.
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There is a very specific, unique brand of rivalry that exists between twins. You're always wondering who the Alpha twin is.
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Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!
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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.
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When you're doing an animated series, you tend to pitch storyboards. You write a script and then you draw a comic version of that script and put it up on big boards, and then you pitch it to a big room of executives and writers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming.
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Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
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I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.
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In terms of creative engagement, I just love being able to produce, produce, produce. You don't always get it perfect, but it has much more of an improvisational element, and you learn.
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I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.
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Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.
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