“The man is a national treasure. He’s a national treasure and he’s a personal treasure too. I share him with the nation.” -Hugh Laurie [on Stephen Fry]

Did you buy these two characters going off together into the sunset? 

Anthony Hopkins: Yes, I did. Other people found that preposterous. I suppose there’s a moral issue there. I think it would have been a very interesting thing though. I think it would have been very interesting had she gone off, because I suspected that there was that romance, attachment there, that obsession with her. I guessed that a long time ago, at the last phone call to Clarice, at the end of SotL, she said, “Dr. Lecter, Dr. Lecter…”