Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.

I felt a gravitational pull to the material so that there's a certain element of acting that's not really necessary. I've really liked this in foreign movies before or I've observed others working with them and I've noticed that there's a method that goes on where the actors try and get the children, like the child actor, to interact with them in a real way. It seems like you're the adult trying to get the kid to fall in love with him.

George of the Jungle is a cartoon. He's a guy who swings around on a vine all day. Are you not buying that?

They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

You should do everything as if it's the last time you might ever do it. Because, you know, it may be.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.