"One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I’ll never know. But that is entirely irrelevant to what I was talking about. We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren’t developed. But we’re going back again in a couple of weeks."

Wikipedia wrote:

Walsh employed 93 actors and used as many as 725 natives from five different Indian tribes. He also obtained 185 wagons, 1,800 cows, 1,400 horses, 500 buffalos and 700 chickens, pigs and dogs for the production of the film.