Quotes from Matt Stone

At this point, we've ripped on everyone.

We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.

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

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?

There are good characters and bad characters.

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

I'm concerned about people being happy.

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

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?

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

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

So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'

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 just hate that Lucas... and it is not just Lucas, because everybody does it, where, boom, they get it out, and then there's a special edition for a movie that doesn't deserve a special edition.

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

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.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

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.

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

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.

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

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

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.

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