Matt Stone Quotes

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 hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

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.

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

The last few years on ‘South Park’ we have done some of the riskiest things we have ever done, knowing it could kill the show, but we also know that’s what we have to do.

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.

There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.

Sometimes we come up with something great, but a lot of times it just feels like work.

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

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

I'm concerned about people being happy.

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.

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

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

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

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

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

I would vote for a Mormon.

It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

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

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

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

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

There are good characters and bad characters.

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.

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'

I just get my news from the Internet.

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

Once you get yourselves into things that are working on a deeper level, you just have to keep going. When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.

When you reach that deeper level, you can't go back.