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 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
You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business. — Jay Chandrasekhar 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 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
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 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
We write and write and write until we think, 'If we have to shoot this script, we'll be happy, and it's going… — 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
History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a… — 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
