When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.
One of the nice things about not working on a TV show anymore is that I'm not on any particular kind of clock.
I love the idea that if you watch something twice, three times, four times, you'll continuously notice new things.
As a kid, I was obsessed with 'Calvin and Hobbes' and 'Bone,' and I'm certain that I've unconsciously ripped off ideas from both, wholesale.
While everyone was out playing dodgeball, I was lying on the blacktop waiting for a UFO to take me out of elementary school.
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.
Gravity Falls' is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.
When I was 15 I did birdcalls on the David Letterman show, but I have since burned all video evidence of this.
Gravity Falls' didn't just appear overnight - every spooky cave and moss covered tree was created by a team of brilliant artists.
It's weird because we live in this age of reboots. Everything is getting rebooted: 'The X-Files,' 'Twin Peaks.' We have shows like 'Gravity Falls' that were inspired by these shows, that are now ending and being followed up by reboots of the shows that inspired them.