Don Cheadle Trying Quotations

The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.

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

I'm trying to steal from everybody. So yeah, there's cats that I'm personally affiliated with - Carl Franklin, Paul Thomas Anderson - and others that I don't know personally but their work I'm a big admirer of, like Martin Scorsese. But I'm hoping to come up with a language that is mine, that's specific to my take on this material.

Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.

Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.