Best quotes by Stephen Hillenburg on Character

Checkout quotes by Stephen Hillenburg on Character

• ‟ I do think that the attitude of the show is about tolerance. Everybody is different, and the show embraces that. The character SpongeBob is an oddball. He's kind of weird, but he's kind of special.

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• ‟ I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel and Hardy or Charlie Chaplin.

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• ‟ I knew I wanted to create a character who was nerdy and kind of square, so when I drew a square sponge, everything came together. And originally his name was SpongeBoy, but there we couldn't use that for trademark reasons.

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• ‟ I always pushed back on doing long-form. I imagined SpongeBob as being simple, and I wanted to concentrate on character humor.

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• ‟ I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.

  - Stephen Hillenburg