Eriq La Salle

So It's not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now…

— Eriq La Salle

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it,…

— Eriq La Salle

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

— Eriq La Salle

The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that…

— Eriq La Salle

It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

— Eriq La Salle

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

— Eriq La Salle

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't…

— Eriq La Salle

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to…

— Eriq La Salle

Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is…

— Eriq La Salle

“some he hadn’t. He found an old family photo album in the living room credenza. He sat at the kitchen table and”

— Eriq La Salle

Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having…

— Eriq La Salle

Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half…

— Eriq La Salle

Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it,…

— Eriq La Salle

Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

— Eriq La Salle

I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

— Eriq La Salle

The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They're just good films. So why…

— Eriq La Salle

Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK,…

— Eriq La Salle

I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as…

— Eriq La Salle

But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not…

— Eriq La Salle