Enemy Quote by Wes Studi

At times, you're welcome, depending on what's being cast. 'Dances with Wolves' - they wanted authentic-looking Indians in the film, and so they got…

— Wes Studi

“Indians were made for film. Indians were exotic and erotic. All those feathers, all that face paint, the breast plates, the bone chokers, the…

— Thomas King

I feel very fortunate that I was able to be cast in roles that showed the humanity, if you will, of usually stereotypical Indian…

— Wes Studi

There have been a bunch of Indian films in English that found an audience.

— Arfi Lamba

Song, dance and cinema are so deeply within the Indian culture and with so many cultures incorporating their elements too, it has become a…

— Javed Jaffrey

I have to say: We were looking at all of Native American actors, who mostly all work under one casting director. And there's so…

— Kelly Reichardt

The only thing I wish was happening more was that there were more Indian characters. Like the movies with leads that are Indian and…

— Karan Soni

There aren't a lot of alternative roles for Indian actors. I think we've fallen short of portraying Indians in the media. We don't need…

— Chris Eyre

We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer…

— Chris Eyre

All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot of Native…

— Sherman Alexie

Some Indians will come up and say that a story reminded them of something very specific to their experience. Which may or may not…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of…

— Aaron Huey