Quotes By Trey Parker

I hate puppets so much.

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.

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.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

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.

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

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.

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

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

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.

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.

The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.

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

I see Santa Claus and Joseph Smith and Luke Skywalker as the same person.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

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

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 find Mormons adorable.

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.

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.

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

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.

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.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

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.

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

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