So often we drift through life bound by the poor decisions we've made in the past, too afraid of the uncertainty that comes with challenging our status quo. It seems like such a paradox to me that human beings are both great adapters to change and terrified by it at the same time. Now, almost 60 years later, the Redskins are enmeshed in a debate about whether their name is a racist. We Were Dreamers Quotes Showing 1-30 of 30. I just hope that also a smaller film like this, made with the intention that comes with being a Native person can also be reached so that we can have a conversation about all of these points of view and about all of the approaches to these important stories. We were just kids, we didn’t know any better. And it's a beautiful, wonderful film that's exploring all these incredible things with this massive scope. When people laugh at Mickey Mouse because he’s so human and that is the secret of his popularity. And now I think the next part of that conversation needs to be companies like Apple or Amazon or Netflix and all of these folks to recognize us Native filmmakers who are telling stories with the same topics, the same actors, in the same state, you know, that we should-we should be given the runway with small percentages of those budgets so that we can reach audiences, because right now the only version of this story in Oklahoma that can be consumed is the one made by a non-Native person. We stopped at a photo booth in Playland to take our pictures, a strip of four shots for a quarter. And I think, you know, I got to share in that beautiful moment at Cannes where "Killers" premiered, and it was so wonderful to be there with Lily and witness that monumental occasion, not only for Lily, but also for Native Peoples to see that film be received and have the budgets and the money. We took a little money from our savings and walked to Forty-second Street.
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