Trey Parker

I can feel myself dying inside.

I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.

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.

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

I find Mormons adorable.

I hate puppets so much.

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

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.

My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.

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

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.

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 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 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.

We have it, we're lucky enough that we've created a show where it's not about... a family, or a kid, it's about a town.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.

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.

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.

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