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!.

The concern about what's too violent or what's too scary is something that I just completely don't let enter into my creative process. I feel like, i….

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 u….

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

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..

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 prou….

Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters..

I'm a very relentless individual and have a lot more insanity coming..

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….

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..

Once you train an audience to look for significance, they start to find it everywhere..

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 Cal….

Gravity Falls has transformed the children of America into an army of Dippers. I couldn't be more proud!.

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 th….

I built a leprechaun trap that was made to look like a tiny hotel. There was a ramp where the leprechaun could walk into the hotel, see a Lego pot of….

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 imp….

When I was a kid, I was obsessed with UFOs in particular, and the paranormal. I grew up in the '90s, which is when The X-Files was at its zenith..

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 ….

A sibling is a friend for life, but they are a friend for life that you are forced to have. And like anything that you are forced to do, occasionally….

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 ti….

Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together..