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 respect their intelligence. ”

Art should offend people because art should challenge people. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”