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"Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath. The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air – taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced."
"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?"
"I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals."
"With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'"
"We've had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments."
"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."
"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."
"The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do."
"Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines."
"There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood."
"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."
"We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun."
"I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music."
"If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair."
"I'm concerned about people being happy."
"Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work."
"We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time."
"Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness."
"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."
"Sometimes I wish I could get fired."