- Jean Simmons: I came over to get married - to Stewart Granger - and I woke up one morning and I suddenly found I had been sold, by J Arthur Rank, to Howard Hughes.
- Stewart Granger: I suddenly realised that Howard Hughes, instead of wanting this lovely actress to make films for RKO, just wanted to screw her.
- Self - Executive Assistant to Howard Hughes: Mr Hughes was a fascinating man. There are many stories, not all apocryphal. For example, one of them, that he never saw RKO, is absolutely true. He never visited the studio. His own functions in running the studio were either from a little office on a street called Main Street, or a similarly small office he had at a rival studio... where he spent many, many hours learning how to cut film.