Top 45 Trey Parker Quotes

When you’re watching ‘Armageddon,’ and the Aerosmith song starts… Super funny.

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’ve never met a Mormon I didn’t like. They’re really nice people. They’re so Disney. They’re so Rodgers and Hammerstein.

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

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.

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

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.’

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It’s out there alive somewhere. It’s not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid’s going to do what it wants to do.

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

I was a big ‘Charlie Brown’ fan as a kid.

I don’t even know where Russia and Mexico are.

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

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

I was a big Broadway fan for a while.

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.

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

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.

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.’

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

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.

When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado’s a redneck with a gun and all this stuff.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

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.

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.

It was exactly the same on the South Park movie really too. There’s lots of violence in that too, but it always came down to anything sexual… They don’t care about anything else.

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

Me and Matt love to argue, but in general our sense of humor is pretty much alike.

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.

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

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.

A lot of people don’t realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in ‘South Park’ more than anybody is my dad. Stan’s father, Randy – my dad’s name is Randy – that’s my drawing of my dad; that’s me doing my dad’s voice. That is just my dad. Even Stan’s last name, Marsh, was my dad’s stepfather’s name.

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.

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.

I don’t want to say never, but I hope I don’t become that ‘take me seriously now’ guy.

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

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.

You can’t make experimental work by copying past work.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

No show would be successful if you took a group of people and just said, ‘You’re dumb!’ over and over. That’s not what Broadway’s about.

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?’

I hate puppets so much.

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

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

If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you’ll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don’t ever ask him to leave.

I’ve gotten to a point where I wouldn’t direct someone else’s material. It would only be something totally original.