The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you’re wearing a cop uniform. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Making an independent film is so great because you’re your boss. And you have to be disciplined. You know? Because there’s nobody telling you anything. But you have to kinda, you know, if you have an instinct to do something, you do it. There’s nobody to run it by. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Making films requires the creative skills you’d expect, but it also demands immense non-creative skills, like the ability to raise all that money and the savviness to work the studio’s politics. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
This career is a relentless hustle because Hollywood is crowded with too many smart, talented people pursuing the same dream and the same pool of entertainment investment dollars. And unlike in law or medicine, there are no college degrees required – no barriers to entry. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
If you want to provide for your family, maybe show business is not a high degree of success. You will need to keep your day job until you make it, and know it’s an odds thing just like the NFL. I personally wouldn’t recommend anybody to go into this business. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
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. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
The film you know as ‘Super Troopers’ is a film that almost didn’t happen. The script was originally commissioned and developed by Miramax, but when it failed to get a green light, Harvey Weinstein was kind enough to give it back to us so we could make it elsewhere. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
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?’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote