Spinal Tap’ is interesting because it created a genre of film and ended it – all in one motion. If you do a mockumentary, you are always going to be compared with that film, and you are never going to be as funny. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either ‘got it or you don’t.’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
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 rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
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. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
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 Read Quote
The reality of show business – and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business – is that it is this business of ‘no’s.’ It’s mostly ‘no’s.’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
A lot of the original people on ‘SNL’ came through Chicago – and Toronto, I’m sure – but Chicago was the center of it all. When I was there, Chris Farley – I knew him; we hung out and stuff – he went off to ‘Saturday Night Live,’ it was like, ‘It’s possible to be from here and make it.’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they’re more important than the filmmakers. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
We hoped to get a TV show, and we almost did, but ‘The State’ beat us out for this MTV show. So because they were there, and ‘SNL’ and ‘Kids in the Hall’ were there, we thought, ‘Let’s go try to do what Python did, and instead, let’s make movies.’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
