Film Quotes by Jay Chandrasekhar

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

— Jay Chandrasekhar

There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

'Spinal Tap' is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it - all in one motion. If you do…

— 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

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

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

'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

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

Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

There has been a stigma around letting movies be seen on home screens on the same day as theatrical screens. Universal said…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the…

— 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

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

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

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

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