Stephen Hillenburg

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

"I think we all thought the show would be good, but I didn't ever assume it would catch on in a mass audience sort of way, that's unexpected, and we're flattered and relieved. Our characters act silly,…"

"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, I thought he was a funny, nerdy, squeaky-clean square."