62 Quotes by Bill Duke

It's great working with great writers and directors because you're getting paid for something you love and want to do.

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.

You determine your reality.

The fact of the matter is that when you're in pain emotionally about your life, the color of your skin does not matter.

I had studied at the NYU School of the Arts under Lloyd Richards, who also worked with the Negro Ensemble Company.

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

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.

I had parents who taught me ethics that I didn't know they were teaching me at the time.

On the way from church one day when my sister and I were 7 or 8, I was beaten by some white bikers.