"Well, I had done a show called 'Black Star,' which was sort of 'He-Man' without the muscles. It was a nice show, but it didn't last, and Mattel had come to me with this muscle-bound character, which was sort of Conan done sideways, and they had only two characters originally: He-Man and Skeletor. Well, just saying you were a He-Man in those days sounded so awful. Today it's just kind of a generic word for that type of character, when before that it meant this macho, male, bullshit type person. They said they wanted to do something like this. And I looked at what they wanted to do. They had him this barbarian with all this awful killing, maiming, and hurting, and I said, "You can't do it like that. There's no way." And I told them that if they gave us total creative control, then we'll create the concept. At that time Westinghouse bought the company."