Dances with Wolves’ really started the movement, using subtitles for Lakota Sioux and showing Indians as interesting, complex people – not just the enemy – and giving a lot of unknown Indian actors work. Wes Studi Read Quote
When I saw the ‘Geronimo’ script and was offered the part, it was overwhelming in that it brought back all of those feelings – made me feel what it’s like to be in those shoes, the same shoes Geronimo himself might have been in. Wes Studi Read Quote
We were created to take care of, steward the land. That is mankind’s purpose on earth, to steward and take care of the land as it feeds off of it. Wes Studi Read Quote
I myself, as an American Indian, feel like a failure in a way. I have not been able to do anything about the fact that these large corporations are taking so much natural gas and oil out of the soil. It seems like we’re always involved in fighting something. It’s tiresome. Wes Studi Read Quote
As a veteran, I am always appreciative when filmmakers bring to the screen stories of those who have served. Wes Studi Read Quote
At times, I’m thinking negatively, thinking that we don’t learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity. Wes Studi Read Quote
I think that the idea of sharing is something that has been lost in our social conscience, and we need to re-think that. We need to learn a new way. Wes Studi Read Quote
I tried bull-riding… I wasn’t good at all: I don’t think I ever got eight seconds anywhere. But then, after that, I discovered acting through community theater. Wes Studi Read Quote
