Trey Parker Quotes
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It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it.
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I was always a very happy, optimistic person.
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Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.
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I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.
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You know, and it really doesn't have a lot to do with the movie. That's the trick to doing a good musical is that, if you take that music number out, there's less to the movie there. You would miss it.
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It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.
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I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.
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It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.
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I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
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My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'
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Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.
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What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.
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It's this simple law, which every writer knows, of taking two opposites and putting them in a room together. I love anything with Cartman and Butters at the same time, it's great.
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Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?
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Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just 'cause'. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.
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My favorite musical? I don't. It changes all the time. I'm just a diehard, I'm totally old school, like I'll sit and watch, if they are re-doing Oklahoma in New York, I will be the first one there.
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No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
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I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.
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We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
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I love life... Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful sadness.
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I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.
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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical
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So we're considering doing a new Christmas album, because there's been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of 'The Most Offensive Song Ever' with lyrics intact.
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We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making of themselves.
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When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.' I played the dentist, and I had my friend play a patient. It was sort of what can go wrong at the dentist, and I just remember I had lots of fake blood and everything.
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Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.
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Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.
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So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
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You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.
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When you're superhot, you don't have the time to enjoy being superhot, because you're working your ass off. By the time we will actually have time to really go out and screw around, we won't be hot anymore.
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