Don Cheadle Quotes

Generally, screenplays suck.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.

After two weeks of working on a project, you know whether it will work or not.

My movies are okay, but they're not my specials.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.

'Justified' had such dead-on beautiful scripts that you didn't want to mess with it.

I have said no to many, many Day of the Dead projects in the past, about 10 or 15, because every time I heard a take it was from someone who didn't know the celebration.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

The fact is that people are attracted to new work and by new work.

I'm very picky about the kind of work that I do, and I'm fortunate to have been able to work with great directors and great actors who've helped me grow as an artist.

I was a very average-at-best player.

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.

I just want to work on good scripts.

Whether it's TV shows or the films that I've done, it's always a priority for me that the entire script should be good.

I was always ranked last in my class. My problem was that I would obtain a just pass and move on to the next class!

I find it very difficult to compare any two projects because they're all such different beasts.

The first thing I look at with a project isn't who's directing, whether it's a big film; it's the character and whether I want to tell her story.

Unfortunately, because of the breadth of what Yahoo does, they sort of became mediocre in so many properties.

I have always wanted to work with Steven R. Monroe, and when I read his script, I was blown away! I think 'Complacent' hits a nerve that people try so desperately to avoid, which is what I love about Steven's work.