Success isn’t about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.
ADAM BEACHWe have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them.
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After that movie I said, “Y’know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That’s gotta be as real as it gets. It’s not just dialogue anymore.”
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I think when I started acting it was the first time I got the freedom of expression.
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He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn’t come out of the water alive.
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I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was.
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With this film, it’s nice to see that the trauma is presented from a white male that was in the Civil War and that trauma affects him in a way that still exists.
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Ever since I started acting, I’ve always spoken to our people about identity. I’ve spoken to kids, telling them: “Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I’m at today? It’s my culture and my traditions, you know?
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This movie shows that perspective from Scott’s character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It’s a nice little twist.
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I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y’know.
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We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.
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I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that’s what you see.
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Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.
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I’m not gonna fall. I’m tired of falling. I’m tired of seeing our people fall. I don’t believe in failure.
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We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully
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