There’s something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood. — Matt Stone

We’re kind of like the smoking section in high school. We’re immature, keep to ourselves. — Matt Stone

You can make fun of everything. — Matt Stone

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.’ — Matt Stone

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

I’ve been to China and Russia, and I don’t know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations. — Matt Stone

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

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I’m a self–described atheist. — Matt Stone

Anybody in television lives under grinding deadlines. — Matt Stone

If the stone falls hard enough the ripples last a lifetime. — Matt Haig

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. — Matt Stone

With religion I was always like, ‘Does it matter if it’s true if it makes you happy?’ — Matt Stone

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. — Matt Stone

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? — Matt Stone

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. — Matt Stone

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. — Matt Stone

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. — Matt Stone

I’m concerned about people being happy. — Matt Stone

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

There are good characters and bad characters. — Matt Stone

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. — Matt Stone

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals. — Matt Stone

In our show, there’s usually a comeuppance. Or, if not, it’s an anti–ending. And you’re supposed to get that. — Matt Stone

At this point, we’ve ripped on everyone. — Matt Stone

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. — Matt Stone

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

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

I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, ‘Whoa, no one will talk to me.’ — Matt Stone