Don Cheadle

President Obama inherited a broken country mired in two wars, a financial crisis, a mortgage mess and more than we all probably even know about and has in my opinion brought us back from the brink. But I still see my friends in no better shape and the gap widening. ”

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them. ”

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles. ”

I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs. ”

I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper. ”

I want to be a part of great things. ”

No, it's not comfortable; I hate watching myself. You don't like when you hear your voice on your voicemail; imagine having to see yourself 30 feet wide and 30 feet big. ”

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. ”

But I think it's intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are. ”

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. ”