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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]
You talk about the relationship between Lecter and Clarice as a kind of courtship. One of the elements is revelation and honesty: “Okay, tell me your worst childhood story, and I’ll tell you what you want to know.” FOSTER: Lecter needs, wants, to be seen as human. And if you don’t see him as human, you’re going to get eaten. So I think there’s something really beautiful about the fact that they relate to each other’s humanity. When Lecter takes in Clarice’s pain, when he breathes it in, or he hears her story about the lambs, it’s not because it’s a story that’s filled with blood and gore. It’s a tiny story of pain. And to him, that’s what connection is. HOPKINS: The only physical connection that Clarice and Lecter have is when she takes the case file and they touch fingers. That’s a talisman of some kind—of relationship, of love, romance, whatever, had it been a different world.
'Dr. Lecter, my name is Clarice Starling’ - Vanity Fair
There’s a love between us, you know, there’s a human connection. He respects her for giving to him in a way that’s fair. That’s just and fair and human. - Jodie Foster
I think he has a form of love for her...I think he loves her in a way. He admires her courage. - Anthony Hopkins
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
Happy 25th Anniversary to The Silence of the Lambs
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.