Often, when you’re in some of these writing rooms for… and the most restrictive is network television, right? They say, ‘Wow, that’s a great joke, but we can’t do that. Okay, let’s try the second joke. Oh, you can’t do that one. But the third joke you can do,’ and hopefully it will be great, but it will remind people of what the joke really was. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
It’s never a matter ever, ever – are – we’re never trying to gross anybody out, or ever are we trying to shock people. We’re just trying to make it funny in a way that makes the audience go, ‘You know, that was the first joke they thought of, and they weren’t afraid to do it.’ Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
We’ve always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
We shot ‘Super Troopers’ on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
I took one film class at NYU over a summer and learned the basics – you know, how to load a camera and how to light and how to edit – and I became a film editor. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
I myself downloaded and watched ‘The Wire,’ ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Mad Men’ and ‘The Walking Dead’ on my iPad while walking on a treadmill. I never turned a TV on once. I never inserted a DVD. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
The thing about our movies is, we write thirty drafts. That’s a very detailed script. Which means that if you try to crank it out week to week in television, it’s impossible. Jay Chandrasekhar Read Quote
