Acting is a profession that requires infinite and intensive labor and patience, particularly in the creation of a character and the projection of a play. Because of my virtue of laziness, I have had to work doubly hard whenever I have accomplished anything at all in the theater. I have had to fight my own tendency to loaf as well as go through the very serious business of putting a play on. The actor of to-day has an opportunity to get variety of work through acting in the films. In the beginning a great many persons of the theater and out of it looked upon the movies as an inferior art.
Pictures often go wrong just as stage plays do and are devoid of art.
Not only did I play a part in this, but I had a great deal to do with the making of it. Come to think of it, it is quite a distinction that in all this great industry of the screen which has turned out so many bad pictures, I was largely responsible for about the worst picture I ever saw. It is made from a great classic of American literature, Melville's Moby Dick. This book appeals to me and always has. What we are going to do for a love interest, I don't quite know.