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
The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform. — 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
All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny,… — Jay Chandrasekhar 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 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
It's never a matter ever, ever - are - we're never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to… — 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
I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys. — 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
