When I started, there were no Indians on television or films, except for Sir Ben Kingsley. I was an actor in high… — Jay Chandrasekhar Actor 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 Ability 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 College Copy Share Image
Ultimately, in regular television, you've got seven or eight executives and maybe 50 people in the room with dials who are deciding… — Jay Chandrasekhar Entertainment Copy Share Image
This career is a relentless hustle because Hollywood is crowded with too many smart, talented people pursuing the same dream and the… — Jay Chandrasekhar Hollywood Copy Share Image
The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even… — Jay Chandrasekhar Comedy Copy Share Image
Every time you jump to another format in the 'picture business,' meaning film, television, commercials, the people in the other format go,… — Jay Chandrasekhar Business Copy Share Image
I think, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention… — Jay Chandrasekhar Attention Copy Share Image
What I do when I act and direct is I do a small version, go a little bigger, do a medium one,… — 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
'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
We hoped to get a TV show, and we almost did, but 'The State' beat us out for this MTV show. So… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I always feel like any criminal who doesn't have a mask on is dumb: particularly the ones who don't realize that all… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
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 Chemistry 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 Basics Copy Share Image
It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a… — Jay Chandrasekhar Love Copy Share Image
Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell… — Jay Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
I've come to the realization that you can entertain people both through making them laugh and making them feel. You can be… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Advice Copy Share Image
It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to… — Jay Chandrasekhar Comedy Copy Share Image
