I think what's happened over the years is that conventional movies are about fewer and fewer and fewer people now,

There's a great line where she says, 'Well, people hate history,'

Pretty much it's the guy and the girl and they each have one friend, and maybe a landlady or something like that -- or there's a man against the world, and all he's got is his dog or his kid or whatever. What's happened is that John is just showing more of a whole town.

I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

In recent years, the choice of drugs on these reservations and throughout my district has been methamphetamines. It has destroyed the rule of law among the reservation people. It is killing our tribal youth in this country.

Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.