A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
In the summer of 2000, four college friends and I grew mustaches, bought highway patrol uniforms, and shot a $1.2 million budgeted… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Making films requires the creative skills you'd expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
'Super Troopers' benefited from the old way of watching films, the way we watched at Colgate, when you went to someone's house,… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
With 'Puddle Cruiser,' the first 15 minutes are the weakest. When you're total unknowns and you have a weak opening, it's a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Making an independent film is so great because you're your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there's nobody… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The film you know as 'Super Troopers' is a film that almost didn't happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
There has been a stigma around letting movies be seen on home screens on the same day as theatrical screens. Universal said… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I'm from Chicago. And I was an actor in high school and college, and I wanted to see if I could make a run… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
Ultimately, in regular television, you've got seven or eight executives and maybe 50 people in the room with dials who are deciding whether a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's a great… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it's… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to crank it… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share
