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 got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell - but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
If we have a great idea, we'll go, 'Oh, this could be a cool movie.' Or really for us, it's more like, 'Oh, this is a really bad idea. Let's do this. This seems really stupid.'
Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.
To me, every episode is like a song, and every season is like an album. There's that part of the day when you first get the idea and you say, "This could be really funny." And you sit down and you write it. There's just something that happens there that doesn't happen when you really give it a lot of time beforehand.
We tried to stay true to the Thunderbirds. We don't use any computers in this movie, it's all painfully real.
We ended up adding all these dimensions to Butters that I think were really great, ... He's always the kid that's worried his parents are going to ground him, but on the other hand he's got this other persona where he thinks he's this evil superhero, but even in that he does the most mundane things.
The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
None of the shows we've done in the last two or three seasons could have been shown on air back in 1997.
We thought he could pull it off and he would get it, and not cheese it up too much,
It's ... just going to be a total trip, and I'm just going to enjoy it, ... Because I'm sure I'll never be back.
It used to reflect a budget. Now 'independent film' means anything under $10 million. That's what people are saying now. But, that's not really true. I think independent films means you did everything independently.
Talk about it, talk about it, and then I physically go write it and come up with the dialogue, and come up with the structure of the scene.
The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
We're not ashamed of our bodies, ... This event is the most important thing in the world.