Love Quote by Leslie Banks

To hear an actor from the early 20th century call the paranormal a "beacon" is to catch a working artist describing their own survival strategy. Banks isn’t pitching ghosts as a belief system; he’s pitching them as a stage light. In the paranormal, he’s saying, the rules loosen. The ordinary constraints of realism, taste, even plausibility stop policing what a performer can do. That’s the practical allure: it’s a sandbox where melodrama, romance, comedy, horror, and mystery can all share the same weather.

The phrasing is revealing. "Every genre I write" suggests more than acting-for-hire; it hints at an identity as a maker, someone stitching material together, shaping tone, maybe even inventing parts for himself. For a performer of Banks’s era - moving between theater and film as cinema learned to speak - genre was both opportunity and trap. Typecasting was real. So was the pressure to deliver clean, legible emotions to mass audiences. The paranormal offers a loophole: you can play heightened feeling without apologizing for it. Fear can be lyrical, romance can be uncanny, comedy can turn macabre.

"One beacon" is the key subtext. He wants a single organizing glow that can unify his scattered interests and experiments. Not a haunted house as escapism, but a guiding device: the supernatural as a license to blend forms, intensify mood, and keep imagination from being reduced to mere craft. In that sense, the paranormal becomes less about spirits and more about permission.