Eriq La Salle Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“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.”

“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 landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.”

“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 make your money back.”

“Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.”