I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career… — Jay Chandrasekhar Age Copy Share Image
People always ask us, 'Hey, is there going to be a 'Beerfest 2'?' I don't know if I have another beer joke… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I've written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches - I know exactly how to do them. They're judged by set criteria… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why. — Jay Chandrasekhar Communication Copy Share Image
The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is… — Jay Chandrasekhar Business Copy Share Image
If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else. — Jay Chandrasekhar Camera Copy Share Image
To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like,… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of… — Jay Chandrasekhar Baseball Copy Share Image
I myself downloaded and watched 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Walking Dead' on my iPad while walking… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That's a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to… — 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 Basketball 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
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
A lot of people come from small towns, and they come here wondering 'Can I really make it in Hollywood?' When I… — Jay Chandrasekhar Chicago Copy Share Image
A lot of the original people on 'SNL' came through Chicago - and Toronto, I'm sure - but Chicago was the center… — Jay Chandrasekhar Chicago Copy Share Image
As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh. — Jay Chandrasekhar Comedy Copy Share Image
I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the… — 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 Colors 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 Business 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 Business Copy Share Image
I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone. — Jay Chandrasekhar Attention Copy Share Image
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 Cinema Copy Share Image
I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing. — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
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 Basketball team Copy Share Image
A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers. — Jay Chandrasekhar Cinema Copy Share Image
When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our… — Jay Chandrasekhar Actor Copy Share Image
All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny,… — Jay Chandrasekhar Funny Copy Share Image
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 Cinema Copy Share Image
Whether I'm performing or directing, I'm aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it's nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it's intentionally breaking the… — Jay Chandrasekhar Funny Copy Share Image
'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not… — Jay Chandrasekhar Blues Copy Share Image
I think there's a pedigree that comes with being from Chicago that gives you some cache outside of L.A. and New York,… — Jay Chandrasekhar Being 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
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
I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go… — Jay Chandrasekhar Anti american Copy Share Image
