Jay Chandrasekhar Quotes
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I've come to the realization that you can entertain people both through making them laugh and making them feel. You can be quiet, and they can feel, and you will have scored as well.
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Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.
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Violence is totally accepted in this country.
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I always feel like any criminal who doesn't have a mask on is dumb: particularly the ones who don't realize that all mini-marts have cameras. I find that so hilarious. Or bank robbers without a mask. You're like, 'Have you seen no movies?'
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I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.
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We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie.
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There was a Burger King in Hamilton, N.Y., where Colgate is, that had three sizes: Small, Medium, and Liter. I would go in there and order a large. And they'd say, 'We don't have large; we have liters.' So they'd make us order liters of cola, which I found to be just anti-American.
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A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had this dark style, like a Scorsese film.
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The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.
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What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.
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If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.
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That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
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I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.
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When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.
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A lot of people come from small towns, and they come here wondering 'Can I really make it in Hollywood?' When I went to L.A., I knew I was going to make it. There's no doubt about it. Why? Because I'm from Chicago!
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We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.
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If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.
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I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
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When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.
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Growing up, I was the only Indian kid around for miles, so I ached to belong. I had a neighborhood pack of nine guys and two girls, and we hung out all the time. We played football, baseball, and broom-hockey on the iced-up lake.
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Our fans often tell us that they see themselves in us. The relationship between the guys in Broken Lizard rings a bell with them, because they have their own little friend groups, with their own complex dynamics, and their own private jokes.
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I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.
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What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.