Writer

When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some toilet paper tubes.

I will say this: 'Gravity Falls' is a show about mystery, that itch you get when you're curious. That itself is a really cool, inspiring thing.

I always designed 'Gravity Falls' to be a finite series about one epic summer-a series with a beginning, middle, and end.

My mom is always right.

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

I think there are a lot of shows out there that value being hip or cool over being funny and heartfelt.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

With shows like 'The X-Files' or 'Eerie, Indiana' - even though they would have comedic moments, even though they would have character moments - there was a sincerity about magic.

I never doubted that if I applied myself and tried to learn that I would good at it. I've had a lot of lucky turns, no doubt. But it's actually been a fairly direct line from control-freak, cartoon-obsessed kindergartner to control-freak, cartoon-obsessed executive producer.

Gravity Falls' has so much inspiration that comes from 'Twin Peaks,' the idea of Agent Cooper being the one to drive Dipper and Mabel home made me feel like, yeah, they're going to be all right.

Sometimes a sincere moment is the most surprising thing you can write.

The more a character wants and the less a character has the ability to get what they want, the more you have an endless fuel for storytelling in comedy.

We passed a sign for Boring, Oregon. We never went there, but I was positively enchanted with the idea that there was a town called Boring. 'Gravity Falls' is partially from what I imagine Boring might be like. Or maybe the opposite of Boring, Oregon, would be 'Gravity Falls.'

I watched the classics as a kid, and I could tell that Bugs Bunny in drag was a cartoon and a joke. It didn't make me start dressing in drag.

One day I'd love to release a coffee table book of all the crazy notes I got from Disney Channel's S&P and legal department.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

Not a lot of people get to say, 'I'm a cartoon character.'