Author: Don Cheadle

Quotes

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).

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).

- Don Cheadle

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

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

- Don Cheadle

I don't like message movies either.

I don't like message movies either.

- Don Cheadle

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

- Don Cheadle

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.

- Don Cheadle

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

I've never been a part of a film before that offers such a platform into real issues, that raises social awareness and has the potential to change things.

- Don Cheadle

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

It's great to be in a film that's able to have people really want to become socially conscious, to walk out of the theatre and want to do something.

- Don Cheadle

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.

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.

- Don Cheadle

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