The Sixth Sense is not a good white film. Insomnia is not a good white film. They’re just good films. So why we can’t we have good films that happen to have black people, or Asian, or Latino, or any other minority group in them? Eriq La Salle Read Quote
Well that’s the point: People don’t normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating. Eriq La Salle Read Quote
You can’t do psychological thrillers. There’s no audience. I’ve heard this. I’ve heard this from studios. Eriq La Salle Read Quote
Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It’s not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you’re only focused on what you want to eat. Eriq La Salle Read Quote
So It’s not like I go from being this disciplined person who has to get up and go to work to now I just lay around all day in my underwear eating Cheerios. I have this structure. I still have to do this and the difference is I’m doing this for me and my company. Eriq La Salle Read Quote
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It’s not even cinema, It’s just moviemaking. Eriq La Salle Read Quote
Normally, we see characters that have God complexes. How interesting, I thought, it would be to capitalize on that. And say, OK, well fine, you have a God complex, well this person has a Satan complex. And the doctor chooses to treat him scientifically. Eriq La Salle Read Quote
