It was my effort, in depicting the West, to depict it as it was.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
The West was a wonderful world to me. I decided then that if this is the way they did things, then I wanted to be part of it.
When you're on a highway, viewing the western U.S. with the mountains and the flatness and the desert and all that, it's very much like my paintings.
When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.
Anyone who's done their homework knows that the West was a pretty rough-and-tumble place. People from all over the world were there - and when you were there, you had to be tough as nails.
That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
I made the film to bring the story of Islam, the story of 700 million of people, to the West.
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
I always wanted to do a Western.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
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