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
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
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 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
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
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, in a film that's supposed to last an hour and a half, I think you have to really pay attention… — Jay Chandrasekhar 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 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 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 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 Image
'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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree. — Jay Chandrasekhar 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 Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
