“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.” LittlesI CanIdeasHouseBuildingHabitSellsArchitectureSupposed To BeHawaiiColorado Author:Trey Parker
“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.'” IfsIdeasSeemsStupidGreat IdeaBad IdeasReally StupidCool Movie Author:Trey Parker
“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.” IfsFirstsSchoolWatchesNew YorkMusicalMy FavoriteOld SchoolOklahomaDiehard Author:Trey Parker
“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.” PeopleFactsTvsTopicsSatirist Author:Trey Parker
“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.'” IfsTryingMightGuyHouseFunEpisodes Author:Trey Parker
“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.” FirstsPlayShowsRememberBloodTalentMy FriendsPatientFakeGradesDentistSixth GradeTalent Show Author:Trey Parker
“Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical” IfsLoveFeelingsWould BeDecisionMagicRomantic LoveBeing In Love Author:Trey Parker
“My first serious girlfriend, when I was 16, was Mormon. I went to her house for 'family home evening,' and I was like, 'Why aren't you people ignoring each other and watching television?'” PeopleFirstsHomeHouseTelevisionSeriousEveningGirlfriendWatching TelevisionFamily HomeFunny Girlfriend Author:Trey Parker
“There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.” PeopleSmokingVacationCigaretteSmoking CigarettesFunny SmokingCigarette Smoke Author:Trey Parker
“I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHomeFightingRealizingFamilyBrotherLuckySiblingLarge FamilySiblings BrothersRakhi Author:Trey Parker
“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.” ThinkingJobsUsedRoomsPartyClearHollywoodShockingGreat TimesGreat JobUsed To LoveShocking Things Author:Trey Parker
“Before the church responded, a lot of people would ask us, 'Are you afraid of what the church would say?' And Trey and I were like, 'They're going to be cool.' And they were like, 'No, they're not. There are going to be protests.' And we were like, 'Nope, they're going to be cool.' We weren't that surprised by the church's response. We had faith in them.” PeopleAsksChurchResponseProtestBeing Cool Author:Trey Parker
“I love life... Well yeah, and I'm sad, but at the same time I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like, it makes me feel alive, you know? It makes me feel human. And the only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt somethin' really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good, so I guess what I'm feelin' is like a, beautiful sadness.” IfsKnowsWayFeelsHumansFeelingsBeautifulFeltAliveSadnessYeahLove LifeReally HappyI Love LifeI'm Sad Author:Trey Parker
“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.” IfsKnowsWritingBitsKnow HowSceneSouthParksFascinating Author:Trey Parker
“Basically ... out of all the ridiculous religion stories which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous—the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah ... there's this big giant universe and it's expanding, it's all gonna collapse on itself and we're all just here just 'cause ... just 'cause'. That, to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.” StoriesBigsUniverseCausesHeardYeahRidiculousExplanationGiantsCollapseExpanding Author:Trey Parker
“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.” KnowsTwoTogetherLawSimpleRoomsOppositesPolar OppositesTwo Opposites Author:Trey Parker
“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” PeopleThinkingKnowsGuyOrderStarsEnjoyCrazyMiddleRocksTruth IsBaseballSouthPopsParksRock And RollOld PeopleSodaAmerican GuysSoda Pop Author:Trey Parker
“I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.” IfsWorldPersonsLife IsLosesI've LearnedFamily And FriendsLost FriendshipTreasuredPrehistoric Man Author:Trey Parker
“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?” WantShouldGovernmentRunningJesusRepublican Author:Trey Parker
“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.” WayDealsPainfulNegativityRight WayJust RealizedPainful Times Author:Trey Parker
“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.” PeopleFunnyStuffSidesTermTalkingCreativityCreativeCome UpBarsWhere You ComeFunny Stuff Author:Trey Parker
“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.” PeopleTryingMeanSaidBodyLaughingPiecesGroupsSweetMaking People LaughPissed Off Author:Trey Parker
“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.” IfsKnowsNumbersMissingMusicalTricksMissing You Author:Trey Parker
“Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.” HumorArguingSense Of Humor Author:Trey Parker
“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.” ThinkingWantFunnyCan DoComedySouthParksTopicsSatirist Author:Trey Parker
“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.'” WorldWritingWellsSaidFunnyRememberOrderMinutesFilledSouthCriticsObviousHardestParksHardest ThingRemember When Author:Trey Parker
“I think that parents only get so offended by television because they rely on it as a babysitter and the sole educator of their kids.” ThinkingKidsParentTelevisionRelySoleOffendedEducatorBabysitter Author:Trey Parker
“Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.” ImportantSometimesProfitablePrehistoric Man Author:Trey Parker
