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Eriq La Salle

"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."

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"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."

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Akshay Vasu

"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

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Akshay Vasu

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

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Akshay Vasu

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

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Akshay Vasu

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Akshay Vasu

"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."

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Akshay Vasu

"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."

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Akshay Vasu

"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."

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Eriq La Salle
"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."

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Eriq La Salle
"I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time."

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Eriq La Salle
"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."

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Eriq La Salle
"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."

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Eriq La Salle
"I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking."

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Eriq La Salle
"It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it."

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Eriq La Salle
"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."

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Eriq La Salle
"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."

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Eriq La Salle
"Art should offend people because art should challenge people."

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Eriq La Salle
"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?"

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