- All the while, the middle classes and the lower classes, people are struggling and worrying and fretting their lives away over questions of food and education for their children and the wherewithal for the essentials of life. When a man has accumulated m ore than, say, a million, the moneys made should revert back to those who have contributed to the amassment.
- For a long time, I was unwilling to do film work...but I realized that the geniuses of the industry have placed the photo-play on a high plane, particularly within recent years, and in view of its opportunities I was glad to accept the offer of the [Paramount] Artcraft Pictures Corporation.... It is so different and not at all as I expected.... I am fortunate in being under Mr. Maurice Tourneur's direction and presume I shall soon look upon the work as blandly as those to whom it has become a habit, though now it is quite strange.
- I shall never forget my state of mind during the making of Barbary Sheep. My experience before the camera was the most painful thing I have ever known in life. It seemed to me that the little black box became a monster that was leering and scoffing at my feeble efforts to register an emotion before it. I went home in tears. But the next morning I returned.
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