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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
'Super Troopers' did well but not crazy-well theatrically. But it did so well after that it - in ancillary markets - that it became impossible for us to get away from it. We'd get pulled over by cops who would thank us and then would let us go.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people come from small towns, and they come here wondering 'Can I really make it in Hollywood?' When I went to L.A., I knew I was going to make it. There's no doubt about it. Why? Because I'm from Chicago!
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Philosophy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Philosophy teaches you to think big.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020
There used to be lots of legitimate independent distributors: Fox Searchlight, Miramax, Lionsgate, Warner Independent, Focus Features, Paramount Vantage, Picturehouse and Fine Line. Most of them have closed.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't halt time.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People always ask us, 'Hey, is there going to be a 'Beerfest 2'?' I don't know if I have another beer joke in me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like soft villains in comedy films.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find that there's so much funny stuff in real life, and I am much more interested in super grounded, real stuff, so now I just want things to feel real and authentic.
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- Nov 07, 2020