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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 people will drive you crazy.

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!

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

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.

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 everyone would've been childlike, not childish, the world would've be a better place.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Even the most time-honoured truths do not have to be accepted until they are your truths.

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

Everyone is special in their own way.