Quote

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.

Trey Parker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Trey Parker
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 19
Actor
Animator
Composer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Lyricist
Musician
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Conifer
Colorado
Randolph Severn Parker
Randolph Parker
Randolph Severn Parker III
Television
Parent
Kids
Babysitter
Think
Educator
Thinking
Offended
Sole
Rely
Parents

More quotes by Trey Parker

Image
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.
Trey Parker
Image
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
Image
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.'
Trey Parker
Image
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut.
Trey Parker
Image
The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
Trey Parker
Image
To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, This could be really funny. And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand.
Trey Parker
Image
I spend shockingly little time thinking about real-world stuff.
Trey Parker
Image
I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that.
Trey Parker
Image
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?'
Trey Parker
Image
You don't need missionaries in Colorado you got Colorado.
Trey Parker
Image
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.
Trey Parker
Image
I have no desire to ever talk to Sean Penn.
Trey Parker
Image
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.
Trey Parker
Image
I find Mormons adorable.
Trey Parker
Image
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
Image
There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.
Trey Parker
Image
All the religions are super funny to me.
Trey Parker
Image
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.
Trey Parker
Image
The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
Trey Parker
Image
So much of what you see now in Hollywood is written and directed by committee, and you can see it.
Trey Parker