Matt Stone Quotes
I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I have never been attracted to any kind of violence.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
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Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
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Most intuitive ideas have to be clarified, so there is a trial and error process.
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There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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I needed to feed my family. I read a couple of the episodes. How can you keep on doing the same thing?
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I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
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I went to a couple Academy Awards parties and I was definitely like, 'Whoa, no one will talk to me.'
