Matt Stone Quotations

He wants a different standard for religions other than his own, and to me, that is where intolerance and bigotry begin.

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

Manufacturers are still trying to define the crossover vehicle, and we will continue to see a variety of crossover vehicles enter the marketplace. No one wants to be just a minivan or a sedan owner anymore.

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.

You know, the mayor is a very complex individual, and he and I have had some very sharp public disagreements, ... But he's a case study in how to maximize your power and authority, whether others like it or not.

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

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

With luck, timing and knowledge, there is investment potential. But buy cars you like, and buy them because you like them..... I don't know that I'd tell the casual buyer to drop their mutual funds.

So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun!

This is 100 percent having to do with his faith of Scientology. He has no problem--and he's cashed plenty of checks--with our show making fun of Christians.

I may have my personal political thing, but we never wanted it to stain the show.

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.

I definitely think we get a lot of respect for what we do, but I definitely think that some people don't like us, which is fine.

I would vote for a Mormon.

Sometimes I wish I could get fired.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

I just get my news from the Internet.

I'm concerned about people being happy,

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

There are good characters and bad characters.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

If you're working with a band and you really want to work them into the episode, you've got to say to them, "Look, we need you around every day and on Tuesday night all night because we need you to do voices as we're changing stuff." We do the show so quickly, and you just can't get bands to do that. It's not really fair.

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.

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.

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 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?

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

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.