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My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

I grew up in a small town in Sudan. There weren't many cars, so we did things in the countryside near where we lived.

I come from the deep countryside. My family was in farming. I was not really exposed to business. Coming from that environment, I just wanted in my life to go overseas - that was a childhood dream because I wanted diversity, contacts, cultural meetings with others.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.

I grew up in a very modest home. We grew a lot of our food in our backyard. We fished; my brothers hunted.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.