We need the best education system in the United States. The best system, not the most expensive.

Thirty years later Brown would film The Endless Summer II with his son in 1994. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown. Brown is a 2009 inductee into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach California.

Brown has gone beyond surfing a few times with the ski film The Incredible Pair of Skis (1967) a film about motorcycle sport On Any Sunday (1971) which is held in high regard as one of the best motorcycle documentaries of all time and a documentary about extreme sports The Edge (1975) On Any Sunday II (1981) Baja 1000 Classic (1991) and On Any Sunday revisited (2000) He made a guest appearance in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode SpongeBob vs. The Big One. Thirty years later Brown would film The Endless Summer II with his son in 1994.