Jay Chandrasekhar

'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

You can't halt time.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I actually like and love Chevy Chase.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

We only ever write jokes that amuse us.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny,…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it's like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program.…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff,…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Often, when you're in some of these writing rooms for... and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, 'Wow, that's…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I have always enjoyed outlaw films such as 'Smokey and the Bandit.'

— Jay Chandrasekhar

'Smokey and the Bandit' is tough and funny.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

My father and mother were both doctors, yes.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I don't like soft villains in comedy films.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Violence is totally accepted in this country.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had…

— Jay Chandrasekhar