Trey Parker Quotes

There is nothing we can`t do. So it`s just the fact that we`re doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won`t touch, that we`re satirists.

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.

I almost bumped into Alec Baldwin and then turned around and Paris Hilton was standing there. And I was like, `Look, it`s stupid spoiled whore.`

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

Cartman is the proverbial fat kid who everyone picked on, but he still hangs out all the time. His voice just sort of came from...doing Stan`s voice but putting a lot of fat on it.

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.

You start animating it and you get to Friday and you get to Saturday and you go, `This is not funny, like we haven`t figured something out, scrap it.`

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.

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

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There`s lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual... They don`t care about anything else.

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.`

You know, everyone says that South Park" (1997) is satire and political satire and whatever, but really when you look at a season, there`s rarely more than a couple episodes per season that are political satire".

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.

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.

Talk about it, talk about it, and then I physically go write it and come up with the dialogue, and come up with the structure of the scene.

Winning the Emmy really was like, you`re kind of the punk rock kid at school, and suddenly you get Student of the Month. And you`re like, This isn`t cool.""

Then we went out to the animators, the lead animators like, `We`re going to do the battle between heaven and hell.` And they`re like, `What?`

(On his friendship with partner and collaborator, Matt Stone): "If anything, the friendship becomes greater because you share something special together that you don`t share with your other friends".

We made this really dumb decision to put on the cover nothing from South Park but just a real life photo of a piece of pooh dressed up like Mr. Hankey, and a lot of people didn`t, they didn`t even know what it was.

During the run we were like, So there`s two things we can`t do on Comedy Central: Show Mohammed or Tom Cruise.""

(On Team America: World Police (2004)): "It`s like a Bruckheimer musical".

(On "That`s My Bush!" (2001)): "A lot of people didn`t get it. I didn`t get it myself".

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

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.

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.

Sometimes what`s right isn`t as important as what`s profitable.

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.`