Trey Parker Quotes

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

But if I really want to produce my own work and tell stories, then I will.

I am not really interested in only showcasing my life or work but plan to produce, write and create work that is solely my vision.

At some point, I would like to start creating my own things. If people don't write the scripts I like, then I will do my own.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

I don't like directing that much to want a career as a director for hire. I like to have as much creative control as possible.

I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?

To direct a sequel to somebody else's work is not interesting to me.

I want to be a genuine artist who has a say in what I do.

I couldn't be an artist who was told what to do, what to be, what to sing.

I can only do music if I can do it the way I can do it.

All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.

Try to produce your own films, avoid directing for hire.

I'm certainly not who people think I am. I always do whatever I want to do, and my films are personal to me.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

You gotta make the movie you want to make.

To the extent that independent means you're willing to attempt to put your own ideas, personality, and commitment to the material on screen, then of course I hope I'm independent until the day I die.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be.

My job is to just express something that I want to express. And if I'm ahead or behind the curve, that's for others to decide.