Quotes by Joseph Stefano

• Hitch was interested in what I had to offer, like one of my background ideas for Norman's upbringing.
• 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.
• We all go a little mad sometimes.
• 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.
• Hitch suggested a name actress to play Marion because the bigger the star the more unbelievable it would be that we would kill her.
• 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.
• A boy's best friend is his 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.