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.

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.

In his early days at University, he'd been too green to realize winning debates, even private ones, would lose him friends.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

Let's have a day in the life of Gerard." Going to get coffee! Going to get coffee!' That's all it would be.

If you want to understand how a lion hunts, don't go to the zoo. Go to the jungle.

If no one thinks you can, then you have to.

That's not what I'm looking forward to, just being home and just kind of not really sure kind of what to do with myself.

The only music I don't like is bad music.

Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.