Trey Parker Quotes

I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy.

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.

I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister.

Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000.

It's not like we have a formula, but I think one of the reasons this show has survived is that it has a big heart at its center. Other cartoon shows have people crap on each other and make racist jokes. But I don't think people tune in for that. I just don't think a show lasts for 10 years without a heart.

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

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.

Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

In terms of the creative side of it, it's really been a thing where you come up with the funny stuff is usually at a bar or out talking to people or whatever.

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.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'

I hate puppets so much. I dream about puppets all night. I see strings on people. The nice thing is we can just take a puppet and put it in front of a wall and blow the shit out of it.

Any job is a job. If you have to be doing something, then you're probably not enjoying it.

Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd.

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado.

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.

People have a lot of different beliefs, and at the end of the day, we all have deeply held beliefs that probably don't make sense to anyone else.

I would never kill somebody, unless they pissed me off.

Sean Penn's really the only one stupid enough to put anything down on paper.

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

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.

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.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

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.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

I would let my kids watch this stuff way before I'd let them watch something like 'Full House' that I think would make them stupid.

So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.

I find Mormons adorable.

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?'

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.

I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.

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.

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.

Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.

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.

Living is having ups and downs and sharing them with friends.

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

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.

I grew up with the religion of 'Star Wars,' frankly. That's when I realized there is something bigger out there... and it's called The Force.