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Joseph Stefano
American
Writer
About the author
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,
American
Writer
#Time
#Love
#Years
#Man
#Killing
#Sex
A boy's best friend is his mother.
Joseph Stefano,
American
Writer
#Friend
#Mother
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,
American
Writer
#Chance
#Law
#Effect
#Cure
Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
Joseph Stefano,
American
Writer
#Ideas
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,
American
Writer
#Want
#Talk
#Time
#People
#Meeting
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,
American
Writer
#Being
#Terror
#Nudity
We all go a little mad sometimes.
Joseph Stefano,
American
Writer
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,
American
Writer
#Want
#Today
#Thought
#Mother
#Son
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,
American
Writer
#Play
#Name