Words matter. These are the best Michael Horse Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.
I was taught that you can’t be a healthy individual without art, music, or nature in your life. All my art is tied into inner cultural experience. It has to do with music or ceremonies or nature, even the funny ones.
The FBI was formed because the gangsters were better armed, better financed.
Cartoons are probably my favorite thing to do.
You never come home depressed from a cartoon job.
If I wait for the great definitive story of my people to come around, I’m never going to work.
Without ‘Twin Peaks,’ there would have been no ‘Northern Exposure,’ ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘X-Files’ or ‘Alias.’ It started the movement of ‘off-center’ television.
Man, ‘Twin Peaks’ ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
I don’t really care to be a movie star.
The people in Indiana are so kind and so genuine.
My opinion is that the movie business should show an accurate picture, but I think the responsibility lies in the educational system. Most of the educational material I’ve seen on the Native American does not portray an actual picture.
I’d like to win an Oscar and then refuse it so I can protest the way they’ve treated Marlon Brando.
I have turned down soaps operas. I want to be outside, and I want to have the gun. It is cowboys and Indians to me.
Wherever you repress people, they get hold of a crayon and a bit of scrap paper, and they chronicle their lives and their existence and their history.
I like being outdoors. I like action films.
