You are probably right. He strikes me as sort of a big child. I always think of the part in Hearts of Darkness where he is reading his script and he giggles like a little boy and says "I like that part." or something. He reminds me of this kid I knew in elementary school that loved to draw. I'd go over to his house after school and he had these big rolls of paper his parents gave him, I'm not sure what they were for but they kind of looked like huge rolls of toilet paper, and he'd be unrolling from the spool on one side and rolling it up on the other side as he drew this giant epic continuous battle scene. He was totally obsessed with it and just kept adding to it sort of like continuing the story. He never wanted to go outside to play he just wanted to stay in his room and draw and he was quite skilled. He showed me rolls he had finished and I could not believe he had drawn these things because I could not draw like that nor did I know anybody else that could.

Later in life when I read about Kerouac and discovered he had written On the Road on one long continuous scroll I thought about this kid in his room, drawing, laughing at and talking to the pictures, in his own little world.

I like Milius too but he also makes me laugh, in a good way.