Film Quotes by Bill Duke

It's assumed that light-skinned women have no problems or issues, but they are judged before you know who they are.

— Bill Duke

I'm a very private person, not much of a party person. That's how I keep my sanity.

— Bill Duke

Do I see people working harder than me? I can't imagine that but if I do it inspires me to work harder.

— Bill Duke

I could direct a very decent Holocaust film, but I don't have the same experience as a young boy who was rocked to sleep…

— Bill Duke

My father worked three jobs, my mother worked two, seven days a week sometimes. And they wouldn't take welfare or social assistance, they were…

— Bill Duke

I enjoyed 'Predator' a lot, and also 'Get Rich and Die Tryin'.' I really enjoyed that role and playing the O.G.

— Bill Duke

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

— Bill Duke

I've been very selfish and the women in my life have hated that because of my work ethic. I try not to bring my…

— Bill Duke

By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that…

— Bill Duke

I don't say, 'Francis Ford Coppola, what a wonderful Italian-American director.' I judge him based on his film, his craft, his art. That's the…

— Bill Duke

Well, in the '80s and '70s, with the exception of Sidney Poitier and Brock Peters, maybe Ivan Dixon, if you were as big and…

— Bill Duke

I'm an American, but being a black American, my experience is a particular one, my struggles have been particular.

— Bill Duke

How can you compare 'Hollywood Shuffle,' financed through the director's credit cards, and 'Apocalypse Now?' You have to take into consideration the conditions under…

— Bill Duke

It really upsets me that the media insists on turning 'Do the Right Thing' or 'Boyz N the Hood' into 'black films.' They are…

— Bill Duke

Television is an excellent training ground for a director. If you work consistently in television, as I did, you have to come in on…

— Bill Duke