The history needs to serve the story, not the story the history. But at the same time you can't stray too far.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

There's the concept that dreams are as important - if not more important - than reality. The attention that one pays to those things in the shadows is very much a part of the Indian experience.

America seems to celebrate its more violent past, but Canada doesn't like to recognize those things. The willingness to accept the existence of violence separates our two countries.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

There’s something sexy in cooking for a man who likes my food. Am I growing up?

Americans in any century can be too inclined to accept consultant-crafted images of flesh-and-blood people.

Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!

Well, I think storytellers have always found murder a fascinating device.

This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

I've always wanted to do non-comedies, I've always done dramas, comedies, music, and I always like to bop around and do different things.

Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.

The bourgeois today burns as heretics and hangs as criminals those to whom he erects monuments tomorrow.

It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible.

If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't.

Did you know hemp is a natural fiber