“What Norman Bates calls for is for an actor to be able to go into their insanity, ... Vince is one of the few people I think who's willing to go into that duplicity in himself, and that insanity, and say, 'You know what? Now I'll show it to you.' I think that we're going to love his Norman Bates, because he's showing you himself in ways that nobody else would have the courage to do. It's an amazing performance.”
“I wish I could say there was some big fear of mine after that, but the whole three and a half days that it took to shoot were just hilarious, and I heard that Janet Leigh had this thing where she wouldn't take a shower after that, but I actually came home and took a shower,”
“The therapists didn't know, ... The therapists knew about my abuse. The therapists knew about the shame I was enduring. ... But the therapists never knew the extent of the world that I created to get out of the shame of my abuse.”
“I wanted to talk about stuff that people don't talk about so that maybe they would talk about it, ... So ... maybe they could save themselves from going crazy.”
“But that kind of went along with the imagery, for me, of the bird, the flightiness, the lightness, the light-footedness. So we literally timed out that scene in one shot to be the same exact timing as what Hitchcock and Janet Leigh had originally done, down to where she puts the money.”
