“You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard ...” — Eriq La Salle Quote

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

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.

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.

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.

The more you get a batsman out the more it becomes psychological. A batsman starts thinking about it and making something of it in his head.

I realized that I didn't think I could stand the psychological battering that actors have to withstand. I just felt I wasn't cut out for that kind of self-promotion.

I always wanted to have my own company. It was a psychological issue.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Without meaning to sound crass, I've never had any psychological... help. It's because I feel my work is so revealing about who I am and what I am trying to understand about myself. It's a therapeutic process.