Matt Stone
Matt Stone
Matthew Richard "Matt" Stoneis an American actor, animator, writer, director, producer, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for being the co-creator of South Parkalong with his creative partner Trey Parker, as well as co-writing the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon. Stone was interested in film and music as a child, and attended the University of Colorado, Boulder following high school, where he met Parker. The two collaborated on various short films, and starred in a feature-length musical,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 May 1971
CityHouston, TX
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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?