#u

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#disappear #higher #i #myself #policeman

One of the nuisances of the ballot is that when the oracle has spoken you never know what it means. ↗

— Lord Salisbury

#know #means #never #oracle #spoken

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

#asian #black #film #films #good

Art should offend people because art should challenge people. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#because #challenge #offend #people #should

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 actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#actor #because #big #big difference #did

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. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#advice #beautiful #because #become #direction

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. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#been #choice #doing #ever #festivals

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. ↗

— Eriq La Salle

#budget #days #difficult #even #extremely

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. ↗

— Sallust

#discord #fall #great #great ones #grow

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

#characters #chooses #complex #complexes #doctor