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

- 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, that will be questioning their…

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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 w…

- 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 followed, It's land…

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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 …

- 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 few people as possible just to mak…

- 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

But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an act…

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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 …

- Eriq La Salle