Matt Stone Quotes

We've rewritten entire scenes and had them animated twelve hours before the show goes on the air. It's not fun.

I would vote for a Mormon.

I just get my news from the Internet.

Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

How many fluids should you take in daily? That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time. If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

We've been around long enough and have been to enough award shows to know that it is easy to lose to Phil Collins at any time.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

I just hate that Lucas ... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.

If we added up all of the special 'avoidance' diets, no one could eat anything. Many people are ruining their health by avoiding too many foods." -Ray Peat

I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.

Anything you do to lose weight should be as easy as it can possibly be and still deliver results.

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

You can make fun of everything.

We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

There are good characters and bad characters.

We've had musical stuff in the show [ South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy.

In our show, there's usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it's an anti-ending. And you're supposed to get that.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

I hate conservatives, but I really ... hate liberals.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.