Bill Duke Spectacular Quotes

Bill Duke Spectacular Quotese

There is no reason why excellent pictures can't be made for $4-5 million.

— Bill Duke

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

— Bill Duke

We need people with foresight who are willing to make films with smaller budgets and accept smaller profits.

— Bill Duke

I don't think God makes mistakes and I think that women have to not rely on men to define their worth.

— 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 black as I am, you were a bad guy. Simple. Because in real life, I scare people.

— Bill Duke

I don't want to exclusively direct white films, or black films. I want to have a choice.

— Bill Duke

I was the first black director on 'Dallas.' I drove my car into the studio lot and the guard asked me who I was delivering to.

— Bill Duke

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

— 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 which it was made.

— Bill Duke

Without understanding your history, you can't get a perspective about the present.

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

— Bill Duke

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

— Bill Duke

Some people you can forgive and forget. Some people you cannot forgive or forget. There are other people you can forgive and not forget. So there's people you can forgive and forget. Forgive and not forget. It depends on what they've done.

— Bill Duke

Pain has no color.

— Bill Duke

My favorite filmmaker is Frank Capra. He talked about the redemption of the human spirit - not the superhero, but the common man.

— Bill Duke

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

— Bill Duke

The thing about Robin Givens as an actress is that she doesn't back away from anything.

— Bill Duke

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

— 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 American films. They may open the window on the black experience, but they had things to say to everybody. That's why they were so successful.

— Bill Duke

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

— Bill Duke

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