"The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus?"
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"Jerry Bruckheimer creates comedy, he just doesn't realize because he's a turd."
"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."
"To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand."
"Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas."
"Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable."
"Well I looked in my moms closet and saw what I was getting for Christmas, an ultravibe pleasure 2000."
"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.'"
"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."
"Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective."
"You don't need missionaries in Colorado; you got Colorado."
"It's all based on saying the shocking thing. We used to have a great time going to Hollywood parties and saying 'I think George Bush is doing a great job.' We'd clear out the room. I used to love it."
"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 was always a very happy, optimistic person."
"I bought a house for my mom, I bought a house for my dad, I bought a house for my sister."
"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 just realized that there are going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with them in the right way."
"I don't want to say never, but I hope I don't become that 'take me seriously now' guy."
"I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that."
"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."