Joseph Stefano Quotes

"I didn't know it at the time, but Hitch didn't want to talk to me - he hated meeting with people he might have to reject. As it turned out, someone, maybe his agent, insisted that he interview me."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Time, People, Meeting, Talk, Want)

"We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Being, Nudity, Terror)

"We all go a little mad sometimes."
- Joseph Stefano

"It's not like the original movie where you thought it was the mother committing the murders, but it was actually the son. I don't think it's possible to create the kind of shock today that we created in 1959. And I don't even want to try."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Mother, Son, Thought, Today, Want)

"Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Name, Play)

"In Psycho IV, the time is five years after III, and Norman is out of the hospital. He's a married man, and he's finally learned how to love somebody and have natural sex without killing his lover."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Love, Time, Sex, Killing, Man, Years)

"A boy's best friend is his mother."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Mother, Friend)

"Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure."
- Joseph Stefano
(Related: Chance, Cure, Effect, Law)