#FilmFetishFacts | TCM Big Screen Classics Presents: The Silence of the Lambs 30th Anniversary | Film Screening | October 17, 2021 – October 20, 2021

With a psychopath the media has dubbed Buffalo Bill begins murdering women – and believing it takes one to know one – the FBI sends Agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) to interview a demented prisoner: Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a cannibalistic psychiatrist whose fascination with the young agent is as great as his hunger …
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A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

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By: Anthony Hopkins
Characters: Dr. Hannibal Lecter
From: The Silence of the Lambs
Genres: Cult Cinema | Horror

Context:
Anthony Hopkins (Dr. Hannibal Lecter) says this line to Jodie Foster (FBI Agent Clarice Starling) in the Jonathan Demme film The Silence of the Lambs (1991)