American - Actor | April 9, 1968 -
If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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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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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'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.
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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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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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That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
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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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We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie.
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We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.
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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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