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
It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
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.
When you sit down and write a song, you kind of have the idea for the song, and you sit there at the piano and you kinda just write it. And then of course later there's some dinking around with it and changing some stuff. But there's this thing that happens when the song first comes out, that sort of magic when it first comes out of the ether, and you can't even really explain where it comes from. That happens so much with music, and people understand that with music. But I really think that a lot of movie and TV should be the same way.
The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.
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.