Matt Stone

“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.”

“We were the only ones interested in comedy. Everybody else wanted to be Martin Scorsese.”

“Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.”

“You can make fun of everything.”

“There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.”

“There are good characters and bad characters.”

“The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.”

“So a lot of our shows where even we think we've taken a very deliberate stand, liberals say, 'That's awesome, you took on the conservatives' same show and conservatives say 'That's awesome, you took on liberals.'”

“We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.”

“At this point, we've ripped on everyone.”

“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.'”

“I would vote for a Mormon.”

“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.”

“I'm concerned about people being happy.”

“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.”