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“I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.” quote by Bill Duke — Download Open image

“I'm not interested in making 'black' movies. I'm interested in making movies that reflect reality as I perceive it.”

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

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

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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…

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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…

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

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I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

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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…

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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…

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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 way I feel I should be dealt with in this industry.

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

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

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