I am a real person that cares about his art and cares about what he's doing - I have a heart and a soul and want to touch people and give.
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box.