Trey Parker Quotes

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.

The jokes were perfect! Then George Carlin started talking about the seven dirty words you can't say on television, then it evolved into social commentary.

It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.

'American Dad' is, by its nature, much more political.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

You know that everyone thinks that in order to do South Park we must be wild, crazy, rock and roll stars. But the truth is we're just wholesome middle-American guys. We enjoy soda pop, baseball and beating up old people just as much as anybody.

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

Now, Richard Pryor was unique. Many misunderstood his humor. He lit up the hallway, but they didn't understand his use of profanity. He didn't use it just to be using it; he used it in the context of his satire.

'South Park' is so hilarious... I remember when it first came out: that show changed television forever.

The one thing that frustrates me more than anything else is that no studio has ever told me to tone down violence. They only ask you to make it more presentable.

I think the 'South Park' guys are brilliant.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park', but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?

You really couldn't do a PG version of 'Crossfire!' It just wouldn't work.

I've never understood the use of vulgar language, but the definition of 'risque' is open to interpretation. I suppose I did many things in my shows that could be considered risque... at the time... right up until my 90s.

If you listen to Howard Stern, go back and listen to Lenny Bruce, so you can hear what real talent is.

If it doesn't have sex scenes in it, I won't do it.

I was a kid and it was kind of scabrous, and it wasn't the sacrilege that bothered me so much as the obscenity that challenged a 14-year-old American. But over the years, I came to have a keen appreciation of Charlie Hebdo and what it did.

To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.

Perhaps there is such a thing as obscene sex, but I know that violence is always obscene. So I don't get it, that you can disembowel a woman but you can't see her tits. Who made that up? That's sick!

What infuriates me is that in America violence is judged in context, whereas language is not. So with language there is an arithmetic that says: one f*** is a PG 13, two f***s is an R. They don't say: one bullet through one head is a PG 13, two bullets through more than two heads is an R.

I'm not talking so much about sex - after you've seen sex in a picture, what else can happen - but violence is very bad. People think these are things you are allowed to do. I think they should be forbidden.