Quotes By Matt Stone
In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.
Matt Stone
We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.
Matt Stone
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
Matt Stone
I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?
Matt Stone
Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?
Matt Stone
I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.
Matt Stone
That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.
Matt Stone
We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.
Matt Stone
I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.
Matt Stone
Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
Matt Stone
The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.
Matt Stone
We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.
Matt Stone
I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.
Matt Stone
Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.
Matt Stone
So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'
Matt Stone
I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.
Matt Stone
It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.
Matt Stone
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
Matt Stone