Children in poverty aren't trying to get out of poverty; they're just trying to rip off a pair of Nikes. So we Indian people are a microcosm of what's happening in America. We are now consumers, and our culture has gone.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

True to your own ancestors, therefore true to yourself.

America always put forth this phony melting pot theory, but it's a reality now. They couldn't accomplish the melting pot economically; they couldn't accomplish it politically, or through education and science. But America has become a consumer society, and I see young people in the cities - of all colors and races - hanging out together over consumerism.

They don't understand that a slice of the pie isn't the whole pie - but they wonder why they are always hungry

I never knew I was an artist until I did 'Last of the Mohicans'.

It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.