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Anthony Hopkins: Jonathan showed some clips for my benefit, and I remember the one when you get into the elevator with all those big FBI guys, and I thought “That’s it, this is brilliant! This is brilliant,” because there you are, this smaller person in this big macho, male world, coming in as the hero; Campbell’s Hero. Jodie Foster: Yeah, there are certain images that kind of get seared into your imagination and you say, “Oh, that’s the character, that’s what it’s about.” [..] There was a lot of, not so much apology but, an almost...a shame that she wasn’t bigger, that she wasn’t stronger, that she wasn’t louder. That in her past she had failed. I think that was the part for me. Once I understood that sense of this person trying to overcome the failure of what they were born into, I understood that that was her strength.

She was fixed on the cell. Here she had had the most remarkable encounter of her life. Here she had been startled, shocked, surprised. Here she had heard things about herself so terribly true her heart resounded like a great deep bell. She wanted to go inside. She wanted to go in, wanted it as we want to jump from balconies, as the glint of the rails tempts us when we hear the approaching train. Hannibal - Thomas Harris [Favourite book quotes]

'Dr. Lecter, my name is Clarice Starling’ - Vanity Fair

Happy 30th Anniversary to The Silence of the Lambs released on Valentines Day in 1991 -- director Jonathan Demme believed it would be “the perfect date movie”

Clarice M. Starling

Director Jonathan Demme said this would be “the perfect date movie” and chose February 14th, 1991, for its US release. This date made all involved believe the movie would have no chance of gaining any Academy Award nominations as it would be a full year before they were eligible. They were of course wrong and the movie still managed to sweep the 5 big categories in March, 1992.

I think Lecter’s amused by this buffoon. This man with the terrible checked jacket and the swagger.