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

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

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I don't like soft villains in comedy films.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I actually like and love Chevy Chase.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

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

— 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

There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go…

— 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

What I do when I act and direct is I do a small version, go a little bigger, do a medium one,…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

'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

I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics - you know, how to load a camera…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

— Jay Chandrasekhar

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

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life - and I've written a lot of screenplays, a…

— Jay Chandrasekhar

If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at.…

— Jay Chandrasekhar