Trey Parker Quotes

If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that.' They might make it.

Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

Negotiating is a little like jazz. You improvise on a theme. You know where you want to go, but you’re not always sure how to get there.

Why cannot we sit down together with a board of arbitration, honestly state our difficulties and try to work out a sane method of procedure?

You could have one idea in your mind, and afterwards you could be working with a team with different players, and you may not be able to achieve what you want to, so you need to adapt.

You really have to try and find a way to communicate [in the Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp], to respect each other's opinions and ideas, to be able to fight for something you feel is better than somebody else's idea.

Win-win is a belief in the Third Alternative. It's not your way or my way; it's a better way, a higher way.

It's been really exciting to work on a collaborative, creative team where we got to bounce ideas back and forth and figure out the best one.

I've grown up a little bit. I understand the importance of the negotiation. It is a collective act.

Negotiation means getting the best of your opponent.

The best ideas start as conversations.

The best way to solve problems and to fight against war is through dialogue.

I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

I think we can work through a lot of these issues.

When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Compromise is the key element. The more constraints you have, the more compromise you have to have. But, I personally believe that, when that happens, you have to get more creative, and you end up with something that is even better.

If you listen, you'll learn. If you talk over each other, you don't accomplish anything.

I think the key to working with my husband is that collaboration in comedy is best.

Negotiations can create conditions that can lead to solutions.

Conflict resolution cannot be merely about eliminating all opposition or reducing the choices in negotiating the problem to two mutually exclusive sets of rights and wrongs. Rather, it must consist of laboring to bring everybody to accept reality and then to project a future with this understanding as the foundation.

if we stop talking at one another, and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done.

Negotiating is an art—it is a real art.