"The first day on set, I was very excited, so I arrived early. By the end of the day, I didn’t want to talk to him anymore. I was petrified.
We shot the entire film this way: he was always behind that glass in his cell, delivering his lines while looking directly into the camera, not at me. Meanwhile, I was behind him, so he couldn't see me.
We finished filming without ever having a conversation. I always avoided him, even during meals and breaks. I was truly terrified of him. On the last day, while I was eating, he came over to me smiling, and with tears in my eyes, I managed to say: 'You really scared me!' He replied, 'Actually, you scared me too!'"
— Jodie Foster on Anthony Hopkins’ performance in The Silence of the Lambs, which was released in the United States on February 14, 1991.