Anthony Hopkins

When Chilton says to Clarice Starling, what's he like?

You mean Hannibal the cannibal?

And Chilton, the head of the asylum, says, oh, he's a monster.

And she goes down the passageway to the cell, maybe expecting to see a blubbering lunatic.

And Jonathan Demme said to me, he said, how do you want to be seen by Clarice?

Do you want to be lying on the bunk or do you want to be reading?

I said, no, I want to be standing.

Why?

I said, I can smell her coming down the corridor.

When she sees me, there's this still perfectly civil gentleman.

Good morning.

You're not real FBI, are you?

All the way to the FBI.

That's the way to build a portrait.

And it's all remote because Lecter is the remote, spellbinding character.

And if you have remoteness as the centrifugal force in you, that's the driving force that pulls you in.

Well, it's a touchy subject, isn't it?

Because I'm religion and, you know...

But what happened that morning when that voice said, it's over, now you can start living, and it has all been for a purpose.

So don't forget one moment of it.