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

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.

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

I'm concerned about people being happy.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.

Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

We've had some big waves [of immigration]. And tremendously positive things have happened. Incredible things have happened.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.