Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.

When we first filmed 'Gilmore Girls,' I didn't know it would build such a cult following.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

Shows have a tendency to end when they're over. 'The Dukes of Hazzard' has not ended for the fans, and it has not ended for the cast or the crew, and I'm very proud to be a part of that.

To give Tinker Bell a voice for the first time in history is such an honor.

I'm a cult writer now. I have a cult readership.

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

The idea of 'Napoleon Dynamite' as an animated series made perfect sense to me.

Once I got the Lone Ranger role, I didn't want any other.

In a sense, 'Twin Peaks' never really went away. They've got a 'Twin Peaks' convention up in Washington every year, and I'm pretty much recognized on a fairly regular basis from 'Twin Peaks,' so I feel like it never really got too far away.

'Mad Men' is a hard act to follow. Unless you're called Elisabeth Moss, stuff like this only comes along once in your career.

I don't think any of us could have possibly anticipated how successful Mad Men has been. When we were working on the pilot, we loved it. We thought it was special. We hoped and prayed it'd be a success. But, we didn't count on it.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

Cult movies are basically movies Hollywood missed the first time - that they should have gotten - and then the fans got it and made it successful.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'

I don't think anyone connected with Five-O believed the show would last as long as it did.

I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

Nobody ever pegged James Gandolfini for a leading man. Least of all James Gandolfini.

This funny little film we did called 'Sharknado' has caused so much buzz, I would have never imagined. It's literally caused more buzz than anything else I've ever done. I had no idea that it was going to turn into this phenomenon.

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

'Grey's' is just a machine. I wasn't really prepared for the epic nature of how popular the show is.