Quotes By Trey Parker

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

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

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

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.

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

When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff.

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.

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.

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

My fear is that, as soon as I get married and have kids that I'll kind of do what a lot of people do and suddenly start making, 'Now I'm gonna make films for kids.' I really hope I don't do that.

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.

Even if you're not Christian, just from being in our culture you know Jesus and resurrection and redemption.

I can feel myself dying inside.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, 'You're dumb!' over and over. That's not what Broadway's about.

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.'

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.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

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.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

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

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