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, if I spend a lot of time trying to worry about whether it will appeal to everyone and who will like it and who won't, and I try to please everyone, I'll just spread myself too thin and lose my mind.
Alex HirschAs 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.
Alex HirschYou 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.
Alex HirschSome 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.
Alex HirschI'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.
Alex HirschThink about how rare it is that you exist at all. Also think about time this way: If something exists, even for a second, then forever in the future that thing โexistedโ, and forever in the past that thing โwas going to existโ. So to even be conscious for a millisecond is a kind of immortality, but you have more than a millisecond. You have minutes. Hours. Months. A year? Years! This is a gift.
Alex Hirsch