In those days, there was one secret to making good comedy. If it made
the audience laugh, it was a good comedy.
The greatest comedies that were made by anybody were made in two reels,
I don't care who it was.
Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to PLAY a
comedian that I ever saw.
[on the Our Gang' kids] I've seen Cary Grant sit and watch those kids for half an hour at a time and marvel at their ability to convey an idea. They were natural little actors. Farina [Allen Clayton Hoskins] could cry big tears in twenty seconds. You'd think his heart was breaking. And one moment later he'd be back playing again. They were a special kind of child. Today you'd have to have a contest to find one like them. They talked and acted exactly like children really do. And that's what made 'Our Gang' so popular.
Seventy-five per cent of the things that Chaplin did in pictures had been done in England, only in a different way.