There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

Milius was also instrumental during the startup of the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) organization: it was his idea to use the octagon-shaped cage and his association with UFC helped provide interest and investors to the startup UFC. Milius' script for Apocalypse Now had been eventually filmed by Francis Ford Coppola and was released in 1979 to great acclaim. Influence
Milius has long claimed to be an outsider in Hollywood.

John Frederick Milius (born April 11 1944) is an American screenwriter director and producer of motion pictures. He co-wrote the first two Dirty Harry films and Apocalypse Now and wrote and directed Conan the Barbarian and Red Dawn.