Mads Mikkelsen credited as playing...
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them. By that love, we see potential in our beloved. Through that love, we allow our beloved to see their potential. Expressing that love, our beloveds potential comes true.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Memory gives moments immortality, but forgetfulness promotes a healthy mind. It is good to forget.
- Will Graham: What do you think about when you think about killing?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I think about God.
- Will Graham: Good and evil?
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Good and evil has nothing to do with God. I collect church collapses. Did you see the recent one in Sicily? The facade fell on 65 grandmothers during a special mass. Was that evil? Was that God? If he's up there, he just loves it. Typhoid and swans, it all comes from the same place.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: What did you see?
- Will Graham: A missed opportunity. To feel like I felt when I killed Garret Jacob Hobbs. To feel like... like I felt when I thought I killed you.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: And what does that feel like?
- Will Graham: I felt... a quiet sense of power.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Good.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: "No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage." Plutarch.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Therapy only works when we have a genuine desire to know ourselves as we are. Not as we would like to be.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: The way any animal thinks depends on the limitations of mind and body. If we learn our limitations too soon, we never learn our power.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: [to Will] Why diagnose myself as a monster when you refuse to see the one growing inside you?
- Will Graham: I'm riddled with regrets.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: A life without regret would be no life at all.
- Dr. Hannibal Lecter: So, it's not pulling the trigger you regret. It's not pulling it effectively.
- Will Graham: That would be more accurate.