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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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Don Cheadle
Age: 59
Born: 1964
Born: November 29
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I think that it's much more important to do than to say. And you learn that a lot from your kids, who are watching you, you know?
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One truth that I know for sure, for me anyway, is that the more you know, the more you realize that you don't know.
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Living by example - that's always a better teacher than trying to preach.
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People have always been obsessed by celebrities. There are just more outlets and opportunities to make a living exploiting that obsession nowadays.
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I pray that our leaders stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game and seek a real solution for the good of the planet and all who inhabit it.
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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.
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Comedies are very hard to do. They are difficult. Unless there's the Judd Apatow school, where they're like okay, we know that, we're going to do those. Or unless it's something that's far to the other side.
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If anyone ever said biopic I would say, It's not a biopic. We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction?
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