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" 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
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why. "
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" In the summer of 2000, four college friends and I grew mustaches, bought highway patrol uniforms, and shot a $1.2 million budgeted independent film called 'Super Troopers.' "
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" We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is. "
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" 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. "
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" I actually like and love Chevy Chase. "
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" I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it. "
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" I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin. "
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" We can't make movies without scripts, and there's no cost to writing a script, so my advice to newcomers is do it yourself: Write your own script, shoot your shorts, edit your shorts. "
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" The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even look at the visuals. The rhythm, the music of the comedy, has to work. "
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" 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. "
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" What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere. "
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" That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us. "
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" The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor. "
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" We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie. "
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" What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned. "
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" There has been a stigma around letting movies be seen on home screens on the same day as theatrical screens. Universal said they were going to do it with 'Tower Heist,' but they backed off when challenged by the theater owners. I understand where the theater owners are coming from on big studio movies. "
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" Philosophy teaches you to think big. "
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