Trey Parker – 16 Quotes

16 Quotes by 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.

– Trey Parker

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.

– Trey Parker

So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album, because there’s been Christmas episodes since then, and maybe finally do the version of ‘The Most Offensive Song Ever’ with lyrics intact.

– 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.’

– Trey Parker

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

– Trey Parker

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

– Trey Parker

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.

– 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.

– 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.

– 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.’

– Trey Parker

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

– Trey Parker

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

– Trey Parker

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.

– Trey Parker

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.

– Trey Parker

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call ‘lightly religious.’ So I don’t buy the notion that we can’t laugh about religion in America.

– Trey Parker

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

– Trey Parker