Trey Parker's Quotes

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.

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.'

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.

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'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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I was always a very happy, optimistic person.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

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

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

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.

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

I can feel myself dying inside.

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 hate puppets so much.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

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

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Faith is a kind of winged intellect. The great workmen of history have been men who believed like giants.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

Science has not solved problems, only shifted the points of problems.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.