Don Cheadle Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.”

“I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.”

“We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.”

“I also believe that you are what you have to defend, and if you're a black man that's always going to be the bar against which you are judged, whether you want to align yourself with those themes or not. You can think of yourself as a colourless person, but nobody else is gonna.”

“People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.”

“The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.”

“I don't believe that the U.S. needs to take a police role. I think it needs to support African nations that have said they want to become a part of the solution.”

“I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting.”

“Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.”

“I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).”