Trey Parker Quotes

Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.

Noting that Huckleberry Finn was originally both valued and reviled because it shows the reader that the accepted moral code and social hierarchy is not always correct.

My approach to creating content is focused on pulling people out of their intellectual comfort zones. I'm interested in presenting ideas in unique ways that challenge people to question their assumptions.

I think being a little nuts is helpful.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

We can always find creative ways to do things.

The moment you have massive social and political commentary trying to explain a phenomenon, then you know we are no longer dealing with a strictly psychiatric question.

You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would.

Whenever people ask where I get my sick and twisted ideas from, I reply, 'Just open your eyes.'

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.

When you make movies, you have to be preoccupied with the social problems, otherwise there is no point in making a movie. To have a story, you need a social problem. Not necessarily a problem, but something to get the idea for a story, otherwise there's no story.

Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.

Write about society as news and treat it like sociology.

Ordinary professionalism and 20 years' experience can accomplish a lot, but it can't access the hidden places.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

I have discovered that for me - now, maybe it doesn't work for everybody - for me, it is much more effective to arrive at any situation as a man from Mars than to try to fit in.

You are the smartest lunatic I have ever seen in my whole life.

A genius is someone with the ability to come up with ideas that are new, surprising and valuable.

For me, crime fiction was an opportunity to sneak up on readers with social issues, something they won't go out of their way to seek.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I think my family knows that I'm slightly off the wall with my way of thinking, so I think they're quite used to my weird and wonderful creations.

Although everything has a political connotation today, 'Mulk' is a social film, to be honest. It is not about any political leader, party or ideology.

Those who ultimately shake up an industry are often outsiders who don't know any better.

When someone intelligent comes around, and looks at life around football in a different way, it can be alien.