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You can't halt time.
Philosophy teaches you to think big.
I actually like and love Chevy Chase.
We only ever write jokes that amuse us.
'Smokey and the Bandit' is tough and funny.
I don't like soft villains in comedy films.
Violence is totally accepted in this country.
What makes Broken Lizard, I think, is our timing.
That movie - 'Airplane!' - it influenced so many of us.
Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.
The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.
I have always enjoyed outlaw films such as 'Smokey and the Bandit.'
What I've found is that humans do laugh at the same things everywhere.
If I had to be in the Olympics, I suppose I would do the javelin throw.
I've never thrown a javelin. What kind of sport is that? It's hilarious.
We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.
Frankly, I love 'Scream': I think it's one of the great scary/funny movies.
If a joke makes our tribe laugh, we assume it will make other friend-tribes laugh.
In 2010, The Princeton Review ranked Colgate the most beautiful campus in America - I agree.
'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.
If you hang around people from L.A., they're, like, used to having their city being maligned.
I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard.
I have always felt a comedy's story is undercut if you have a villain who is not really menacing.
If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.
Jessica's Daisy Dukes are even shorter than Catherine Bach's, which I honestly didn't think was possible.
I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.
Like hitting a baseball, comedy is very much about timing. To some degree, you either 'got it or you don't.'
The funny thing about any cop uniform is that people will do what you say when you're wearing a cop uniform.
A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.
I am convinced that tough villains help make a comedy sparkle because they provide a contrast to the funny guys.
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.
You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
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.
I've been watching a lot of cable shows like 'The Wire' and 'Breaking Bad' and 'Downton Abbey.' I love how real the moments are.
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.
I think that Broken Lizard movies typically have to be able to star five guys, so it's like, policemen, spacemen, a basketball team.
A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.
I have used the name Jambulingam while editing films such as 'Super Troopers' and 'Puddle Cruiser.' I like the look and sound of it.
When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.
The reality about shooting films is that you can shoot many jokes and decide later which one works. So it's not worth fighting about jokes.
Occasionally, we would shoot something and think, 'This is it; we are over the line.' But the test audiences didn't have a problem with it.
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.
A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had this dark style, like a Scorsese film.
To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.
Colgate is the epitome of having it both ways. Academically, it ranks in the top twenty schools in the country, but it is also a famous party school.
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.
Everybody wants to make more movies. You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.
The reality of show business - and I suppose a lot of businesses, but specifically show business - is that it is this business of 'no's.' It's mostly 'no's.'
If I were in charge of the Olympics, I would probably try to put something for the javelin guy to aim at. Not just length, but see if you could spear something.
When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.