All I can do is keep my nose down and shoot the scene, shoot the scene, make it funny, make it funny, make it funny. Jay Chandrasekhar More Quotes by Jay Chandrasekhar More Quotes From Jay Chandrasekhar 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 camera know you light We shot 'Super Troopers' on the side of the road in the summer in Poughkeepsie. Jay Chandrasekhar shot side road summer We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is. Jay Chandrasekhar joke go always philosophy 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 you funny people way 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 great you writing people 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 dead myself walking men 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.' Jay Chandrasekhar friends independent college summer