Eriq La Salle
Eriq La Salle
Eriq La Salleis an American actor, director, writer and producer known for his portrayals of Darryl in the 1988 comedy film Coming to America and Dr. Peter Benton in the NBC drama series ER...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth23 July 1962
CountryUnited States of America
difference lay underwear work
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.
believe
It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.
choice good moving promoting since sitting whether
Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.
budget days directing extremely nineteen producing
Acting, directing and producing in a film when you have no budget and only nineteen days makes it extremely, extremely difficult.
differences important actors
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 dont want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So thats a big difference.
art people challenges
Art should offend people because art should challenge people.
psychological thrillers heard
You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.
insomnia white people
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?
thinking saws inspired
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.
hollywood-films important audience
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.
crazy thinking people
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.
beautiful new-york talking
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.
thinking choices information
I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.
people spirituality film
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 own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.