Trey Parker
Trey Parker
Randolph Severn "Trey" Parker IIIis 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 Matt Stone, as well as co-writing and co-directing the Tony Award-winning musical The Book of Mormon. Parker was interested in film and music as a child, and attended the University of Colorado, Boulder following high school, where he met Stone. The two collaborated on various short films, and starred in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth19 October 1969
CityConifer, CO
CountryUnited States of America
I think you could take any Bruckheimer movie and do it with puppets, and it would be screamingly funny.
When I was a kid, to me, the Evergreen Players were the big time.
Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.
Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.
That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I mean they obviously have that in their history, and there are some fundamentalists.
If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.
Out of all the ridiculous religion stories - which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous - the silliest one I've ever heard is, 'Yeah, there's this big, giant universe, and it's expanding, and it's all going to collapse on itself, and we're all just here, just 'cuz. Just 'cuz.' That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever.
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and what they were doing and talk about how everyone in Colorado's a redneck with a gun and all this stuff.
A lot of people don't realize this, but probably the one person that gets made fun of in 'South Park' more than anybody is my dad. Stan's father, Randy - my dad's name is Randy - that's my drawing of my dad; that's me doing my dad's voice. That is just my dad. Even Stan's last name, Marsh, was my dad's stepfather's name.
You can't make experimental work by copying past work.
I've started confiding in people, other artists mostly, that I hate making 'South Park,' and I always have. It's super stressful. I'm always miserable.
The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.