Jay Chandrasekhar quotes

Born
April 9, 1968, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Occupation
Comedian, director, screenwriter, actor.

Jay Chandrasekhar is an American comedian, director, screenwriter, and actor.

Movies
Super Troopers (2001)
Super Troopers 2 (2018)

That movie – ‘Airplane!‘ – it influenced so many of us.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

You can’t halt time.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

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 business world.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

I don’t like soft villains in comedy films.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

What I’ve found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

History is ultimately storytelling. I think the more stories you write in life – and I’ve written a lot of screenplays, a lot of short stories – you realize it’s your interpretation of events that people read, and they absorb that.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

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 show goes – and it’s not a great way, because we’re making mass entertainment.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

Violence is totally accepted in this country.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

I actually like and love Chevy Chase.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

A lot of comedy films, there’s the opinion, ‘Well, if it’s funny, put it in.’ But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

I’ve written close to 20 screenplays and 100 sketches – I know exactly how to do them. They’re judged by set criteria that I know.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

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.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

Philosophy teaches you to think big.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it’s not worth fighting about jokes.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

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

I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it’s like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball team.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

Super Troopers‘ did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it – in ancillary markets – that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We’d get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.
– Jay Chandrasekhar

Frankly, I love ‘Scream’: I think it’s one of the great scary/funny movies.
– Jay Chandrasekhar