Matt Stone Quotes

Cutting carbs, fats, or calories (dieting) is like trying to hold your breath. The longer you do it, the more your body resists it until you finally gasp for air – taking in more than ever to overcome the short-term deficit you induced.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

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?

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.

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.

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 had musical stuff in the show [South Park] forever. That's mostly because Trey's a big musical fan, and he's a great songwriter. He's been writing songs his whole life. So since the beginning, we've always put a lot of musical moments.

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

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines.

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

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

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.

I'm concerned about people being happy.

It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

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

Mormonism has this great cheesy aesthetic - when you watch their videos, it's almost as if they're about to flash a smile at the camera and burst into song. Mormon cheesiness is so close to musical cheesiness.

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

How many fluids should you take in daily? That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time. If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.

There are good characters and bad characters.

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.

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

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

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