Daily Dialogue — July 29, 2010

“I’m not even gonna swat that fly. I hope they are watching. They’ll see. They’ll see and they’ll know and they’ll say, ‘Why, she wouldn’t even harm a fly.’”

 — Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), Psycho (1960), screenplay by Joseph Stefano, based on a novel by Robert Bloch

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is notable last lines. 

Trivia: Alfred Hitchcock bought the rights to the novel anonymously from Robert Bloch for only US$9,000. He then bought up as many copies of the novel as he could to keep the ending a secret.