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
A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.
We thought he could pull it off and he would get it, and not cheese it up too much,
We tried to stay true to the Thunderbirds. We don't use any computers in this movie, it's all painfully real.
None of the shows we've done in the last two or three seasons could have been shown on air back in 1997.
The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.
I was like, 'We're going to get nominated for an Academy Award for this.' I really was, ... I even told him.
We're not ashamed of our bodies, ... This event is the most important thing in the world.
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.
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.
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.
If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.
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.
I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.