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!

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 Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.

I've always loved The Simpsons, just because it was really, really funny. As a kid, you love the characters. You know that the dad is dumb and frustrated, and you know that the boy is smarter than everyone else around him and is constantly getting into mischief.

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

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

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