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. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
I think romantic comedies in general are marketed towards women, and I think men are half the romance, so why not have some that are truly from a male point of view. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
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. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
We write and write and write until we think, ‘If we have to shoot this script, we’ll be happy, and it’s going to be a great movie.’ I meet with all the actors two weeks before, and I ask them, ‘What lines don’t work? What is uncomfortable for you? What jokes do you think aren’t good? If you’re not getting it, here’s what the joke is.’ You fix it. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Super Troopers’ benefited from the old way of watching films, the way we watched at Colgate, when you went to someone’s house, looked at their DVD collection, and then just picked one. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
If you’re not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Look at the opening sequence of ‘The Blues Brothers,’ which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
Every time you jump to another format in the ‘picture business,’ meaning film, television, commercials, the people in the other format go, ‘Ah, yeah, you made a lot of features, but you don’t know how to do TV’ or the commercial people go, ‘Oh, you can’t do 30 seconds.’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
