Psycho IV: The Beginning - Confrontation of Past Actions and Future Intentions
Norman Bates:
I never wanted to kill her.
Dr. Leo Richmond:
But you did kill her, and several others, and now you tell us you're going to kill again.
Norman Bates:
Oh, I've killed before, and now I'm gonna have to do it again.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Identity and Names in Psycho IV
Fran Ambrose:
Well, we have to call you something.
Norman Bates:
You can call me...Ed.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Rejecting the Incest Tragedy Narrative
Norman Bates:
Fran, if the doctor is trying to turn this into some incest tragedy, tell him to forget it.
Fran Ambrose:
Forget it, doc.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Communication Breakdown Between Fran and Norman
Fran Ambrose:
Are you there?
Norman Bates:
I said yes.
Fran Ambrose:
We didn't hear you.
Norman Bates:
I nodded.
Fran Ambrose: [smiling]
We can't hear nods.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Norman Bates' Distress Over Blood and Mother
Norman Bates:
Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Confronting the Past in a New Journey
Norman Bates:
You get in the car, I'm gonna get rid of the past for good.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Faith Without Substance
Norman Bates:
All that faith and no potatoes.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - Norman Bates and His Trusty Umbrella
Norman Bates:
Just me and my trusty umbrella.
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Psycho IV: The Beginning - A Young Norman Bates Takes Responsibility
Norman Bates:
I was practically running the motel single-handedly by the time I was 15. I was the man of the house, she used to call me that. She depended on me, especially when she was scared. She was scared to death of thunder and lightning.
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Psycho II - A Toasted Cheese Sandwich Invitation
Norman Bates:
Would you care to share my toasted cheese sandwich?
Mrs. Emma Spool:
No, thank you. You were expecting me.
Norman Bates:
I was expecting someone. I just wasn't sure who.
Mother:
I'm not sleepy. Put in me in my chair.
Norman Bates:
Yes, Mother.
Mother:
Put me closer to the window, I want to keep my eyes on you. Make sure you don't start playing with filthy girls again.
Norman Bates:
Yes, Mother.
Mother:
Good. Well what are you gawking at? Go down stairs and open the motel! What do you expect us to live on, hope?!
Norman Bates:
No, Mother.
Mother:
Remember, Norman. I'm the only one who loves you. Only your mother truly loves you.
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Psycho II - Madness and Unanswered Questions in Psycho II
Mary Loomis:
Then who did it?
Norman Bates:
My mother did, she told me herself.
Mary Loomis: [the telephone rings]
Oh, Norman... You're mad, don't you know that? You're mad as a hatter.
Norman Bates:
Should I answer it?
Mary Loomis:
Why bother? It's only my mother. She shouldn't be calling, she should be sitting back and gloating.
Norman Bates:
I better answer it.
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Psycho II - A New Beginning for Norman Bates
Mary Loomis:
Norman, what's wrong?
Norman Bates:
It's starting again.
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Psycho II - A Gun Passed Down Through Generations
Norman Bates:
Where did you get that gun?
Mary Loomis:
Uh... my mother gave it to me.
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Psycho II - Struggling with Confusion and Trust
Norman Bates:
Mary, I'm becoming confused again, aren't I?
Mary Loomis:
Of course not.
Norman Bates: [holding the knife]
Don't lie to me! Not you!
Mary Loomis:
Yes, Norman... you are becoming confused again.
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Psycho II - Unraveling the Past's Dark Secrets
Mary Loomis:
Jesus! How'd that get in there!
Norman Bates:
After I killed that kid, I used that towel to clean up the mess, and then I stuffed it down there.
Mary Loomis:
Norman, you couldn't have killed that kid. You were locked in the attic.
Norman Bates:
It wasn't locked! You said so yourself.
Mary Loomis:
Norman, stop talking nonsense! I'm telling you, you did not kill anyone.
Norman Bates:
Then how do you explain all this blood?
Norman Bates: [shouts]
Well?!
Mary Loomis:
I can't. I mean... I don't know.
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Psycho II - Disrupted Sleep Amidst Nearby Intimacy
Mary Loomis:
Do you have any idea what it's like trying to sleep with a couple making love five feet away from you?
Norman Bates:
Noisy?
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Psycho II - A Request for Phone Use
Mary Loomis:
Can I use your phone again?
Norman Bates:
Sure. Who you're gonna call?
Mary Loomis:
Uh, I just remembered of a girl friend I have in town, well, she's sort of a girl friend, but maybe she'll let me spend the night at her place.
Norman Bates:
I thought you were going to stay here. You're more than welcome stay, there's a free room upstairs.
Mary Loomis:
I don't think that's a good idea.
Norman Bates:
Why?
Mary Loomis:
Look, I don't wanna hurt your feelings or anything, but Myrna talked about you on the diner today. Mrs. Spool told her to shut up but she didn't. She said you've been locked up.
Norman Bates: [upset; Mary nods no]
Did she tell you why? Well, I'll tell you. When I was little, I had a fight with my mother, so I put some poison in her tea, you know. But I'm all right now.
Mary Loomis:
You sure?
Norman Bates:
Sure! Otherwise, they wouldn't give me a job on a diner, would they?
Mary Loomis:
I don't know, it takes a nut to work there.
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Psycho II - Suspicion of a Presence in the House
Norman Bates:
Uh, I saw someone!
Dr. Bill Raymond:
Where?
Norman Bates:
Up there! In that window!
Dr. Bill Raymond:
I haven't had a tenant in the house for years.
Norman Bates:
I guess I'm just nervous!
Dr. Bill Raymond:
Well, that's understandable under the circumstances.
Norman Bates:
Yeah.
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Psycho II - Fear of Returning to the Institution
Norman Bates:
Just don't let them take me back to the institution.
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Psycho II - Norman Bates' Promise of Change
Norman Bates:
I don't kill people anymore.
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Psycho III - Freedom vs. Consequences in Psycho III
Sheriff John Hurt:
Jesus, Norman. I wanted to believe it wasn't you. This time, they'll lock you up forever!
Norman Bates:
But I'll be free. I'll finally be free.
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Psycho III - Accusations and Confusion in Psycho III
Mother:
It's lies. It's all lies. Norman, she's a lying whore.
Tracy Venable:
Norman! Norman, where are you?
Mother:
She's a slut!
Tracy Venable:
Norman!
Mother:
Don't let her talk about me like that!
Tracy Venable:
Norman! Please, Norman, please listen to me! Norman, Mrs. Bates, whoever your are, damn it, doesn't it make any difference in that demented brain of yours?
Mother:
Kill her, boy! Get her! Just like the others! Get her!
Tracy Venable:
Oh! No! Don't! No! Please! Norman, no!
Mother: [Norman stabs mother]
Norman! Can't you do anything right? How dare you treat your mother in such... a... way... Norman...
Norman Bates:
So I don't have the guts, huh?
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Psycho III - Madness and its Universal Nature
Maureen Coyle:
You must think I've gone mad.
Norman Bates:
Oh, no... no. We all go a little mad sometimes.
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Psycho III - Conflict Between Mother and Son Emerges
Mother:
Get that whore out of my house! Throw her down in the muck and filth where she belongs!
Norman Bates:
I'll get you for this, mother. I'll get you for this.
Mother:
You haven't got the guts, boy!
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Psycho III - A Desperate Bargain for Control
Norman Bates:
I just want my mother back.
Duane Duke:
Take her. But you know what I want in return, and you know what i'll do if I don't get it.
Norman Bates:
I know what you'll do...
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Psycho III - Questioning the Past and Its Consequences
Duane Duke:
Doesn't scan, does it, Norman? But... a lot of shit here doesn't.
Norman Bates:
What are you doing with my mother?
Duane Duke:
Don't you mean mummy? You did a nice job on her, Norman. Fresh as the day she was croaked.
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Psycho III - A Tense Conversation Between Mother and Son
Mother:
You dirty, dirty boy.
Norman Bates:
But I... I didn't do anything, mother... I didn't do anything, mother. She a nice girl.
Mother:
She's a whore.
Norman Bates:
But we didn't do anything.
Mother:
You let her come between us.
Norman Bates:
But this... It isn't right. It isn't natural.
Mother:
It's perfectly natural for a son to love his mother.
Norman Bates:
God, will you leave me alone, mother? Will you leave me alone?!
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Psycho III - A Conversation About Shame and Visibility
Mother:
Put me closer to the window.
Norman Bates:
Someone will see you, mother.
Mother:
Are you ashamed of me?
Norman Bates:
You know why, mother. They've even written about you in the newspapers.
Mother:
Stop your whining, boy. All this fuss over nothing.
Norman Bates:
Not nothing. I-I saw her. Even the initials on her suitcase, "M.C." Marion Crane.
Mother:
Another of your cheap erotic illusions, out of your cheap erotic imagination. You killed her. The slut deserved it. But she's dead, and the dead don't come back.
Norman Bates:
Y-Y-You came back.
Mother:
I never went away, don't you know that by now? You can't get rid of me. I'll always be with you, Norman. Always. Stand up straight and wipe your snotty little nose. If the disgusting little whore is going to upset you so much, just get rid of her.
Norman Bates:
No!
Mother:
Then maybe I will.
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Psycho III - Conflict with Maternal Influence
Norman Bates: [A cartoon laughs from the TV]
You! You made me do this, your tainted blood in me! Don't laugh at me, mother! Don't laugh at me!
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Psycho III - Understanding the Actions of the Vulnerable
Norman Bates:
She can't help it. She can't help the things she does. She's just an old lady. A sick old lady.
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Psycho III - The Past Always Lingers Within Us
Norman Bates:
The past is never really the past. It stays with me all the time.
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Psycho III - Norman Bates' Distress Over Blood and Mother
Norman Bates:
Mother! Oh God, mother! Blood! Blood!
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Friendly Persuasion - Struggling with Duty and Morality
Josh Birdwell:
I don't want to die. I don't think I could kill anyone if I tried. But I have to try, so long as other people have to.
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Psycho - Norman Bates' Distress Call to Mother
Norman Bates: [before discovering Marion's body]
Mother! Oh, God! Mother! Blood! Blood!
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The Trial - Accountability and Identity in Society
Josef K.:
I don't pretend to be a martyr, no.
Hastler:
Not even a victim of society?
Josef K.:
I am a member of society.
Hastler:
Do you think you can persuade the court that you're not responsible by reason of lunacy?
Josef K.:
I think that's what the court wants me to believe. Yes, that's the conspiracy: to persuade us all that the whole world is crazy, formless, meaningless, absurd. That's the dirty game. So I've lost my case. What of it? You, you're losing too. It's all lost, lost. So what? Does that sentence the entire universe to lunacy?
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The Trial - The Complexity of Judicial Outcomes
Titorelli:
You see, in definite acquittal, all the documents are annulled. But with ostensible acquittal, your whole dossier continues to circulate. Up to the higher courts, down to the lower ones, up again, down. These oscillations and peregrinations, you just can't figure em.
Josef K.:
No use in trying either, I suppose.
Titorelli:
Not a hope. Why, I've known cases of an acquitted man coming home from the court and finding the cops waiting there to arrest him all over again. But then, of course, theoretically it's always possible to get another ostensible acquittal.
Josef K.:
The second acquittal wouldn't be final either.
Titorelli:
It's automatically followed by the third arrest. The third acquittal, by the fourth arrest. The fourth...
Josef K.:
I think what surprises me most is how ignorant I am about everything concerning this court of yours. For an accused man, that's a mistake. He should never let himself be caught napping, never for a minute let his eye stray to the left, when for all he knows, a judge or somebody like that can be lurking somewhere to the right.
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The Trial - Judgment Perceived Through Facial Expressions
Bloch:
You're supposed to be able to tell from a man's face and from the line of his lips, especially, how his case is going to turn out.
Josef K.:
So?
Bloch:
So the people are saying that from the expression on your lips, they could tell that you'll be found guilty, yes, in the very near future.
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The Trial - Frustration in a Repetitive Apology
Josef K.:
I'm sorry.
Miss Burstner:
You're sorry, you're sorry, you're sorry. You always keep saying that. Who gives a damn?
Josef K.:
I know. I'm s...
Miss Burstner:
What's the big joke?
Josef K.:
I almost said it again. You're right, of course. You're perfectly right.
Miss Burstner:
Yeah?
Josef K.:
Nobody gives a damn. I know you don't.
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The Trial - Confronting Guilt and Judgment
Josef K.:
You...! I make you very uncomfortable, don't I? It distresses you to find me in your company? Yes, I've been told about that! Before I thought you, you took me for a judge, or at least some official of the court! I even thought you were afraid of me, but what you're feeling is PAIN! You don't like what you see, do you? It's my mouth! You think you can tell from my mouth, that I'm condemned! That I'm going to be found guilty! GUILTY!
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The Black Hole - Legacy of Success and Failure in Space Science
Dr. Alex Durant:
You will be remembered as one of the biggest space scientists of all time.
Dr. Hans Reinhardt:
I've never doubted that. It's about time that people learn about their failures and my successes.
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