White Americans have a short memory.

I felt so conflicted about having fled the rez as a kid that I created a whole literary career that left me there.

I was a controversial figure on my reservation when I was a kid. I was mouthy and opinionated and arrogant. Nothing has changed.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.

I work incredibly hard - just like every other person in business and work. And aside from the fact of, yes, I am the brother of someone very important, I am, at the end of the day, just James.

I have not planned my Bollywood career the way I have planned my career in Bengali films.

I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.