Orson Welles:"[addressing the RKO shareholders] Good afternoon. Today: a man from Germany invaded Greece; He's already swallowed Poland, Denmark, Norway and Belgium; He's bombing London as I speak. Everywhere this man goes, he crushes the life and the freedom of his subjects; He sews yellow stars on their lapels; He takes their voices. In this country: we still have our voices. We can argue with them, and we can sing, and we can be heard because we are, for the moment, free."
[…]:"No one can tell us what to say or how to say it, can they? Gentlemen: I am one voice; that is all. My picture is one voice; one view; one opinion; nothing more. Men are dying in Europe now, and Americans soon will be so that we can surmount the tyrants and the dictators. Will you send a message across America that one man can take away our voices? so: Who is Mr. Hearst; and Who is Mr. Welles?"
[…]:"Well: Mr. Hearst built a palace of brick and mortar, and little wars and corpses piled high; Mr. Welles built a palace of illusion. It's a; what we call a matte painting - it's a camera trick; it's nothing. Nothing but a dream. Today, you have the chance to let the dream triumph. Thank you."
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