62 Quotes by Bill Duke

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

Never... never... whether you are five or 100, never give up. It's never too late.

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

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Our internal racism is still alive. We are still putting each other down and making jokes about each other because of the color of our skin. With women particularly, it's difficult because the beauty business says, 'If you don't look a certain way, God made a mistake.'

No individual should rely on any other human being or system to define their worth as a human being. You have to begin to find that within yourself.

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 in the lap of a grandmother who had a tattooed number on her arm, who told him stories of the people who disappeared, the relatives she never saw again, as he drifted off with his cheek nestled next to that number.

The Democrats throw money at the problems, and the Republicans tend to ignore them. The Natural Law Party goes beyond those approaches. It's about true change.

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.