When you construct a mix tape, the first song you come out with has to be a barnburner.

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.

It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame.

Somebody dies and people eat your food. Funny how that works.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

I was studying the sky like I was an astronomer, except it was daytime and I didn't have a telescope, so I was just an idiot.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'