- David W. Griffith [D.W. Griffith] had come to Dad and interviewed him concerning some of the historical background for "Intolerance" [Intolerance (1916)]. One day when I was with Dad I met Mr. Griffith. I had been passing the "Intolerance" sets - the walls of Babylon and all that - almost every day on my way to and from school, and I had taken particular notice of the two stucco or papier mache figures of elephants with their trunks curled up. "They - those elephants - always seem to be beckoning me," I told Mr. Griffith, "saying, 'Come on! Come on!'"
- Talking pictures have done a lot of things to this industry, one of the most important being the placement of a value on brains. Brains never mattered before as far as an actor or actress was concerned. But now we must learn our lines.
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