Rosalie: Psycho

There's dialogue in Rosalie that recalls -- okay, is ripped off from -- the scene in Hitchcock's Psycho where Marion and Norman have dinner together. It's a loving homage, honest. I really do believe Joseph Stefano's script for that movie is the closest classical Hollywood came to literature. Where I've said before that Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard improved -- maybe -- on Bram Stoker's Dracula; Hitchcock's Psycho, and Joseph Stefano's script for that novel, does more than adapt the Robert Bloch novel on which it was based, it creates a new kind of horror genre that we've all been enthral to ever since.

I honestly have nothing but admiration for Hitchcock and Stefano; that dialogue, about Jack wanting a private island and wanting to confront his mother, is me using the tools of much better writers to express the incomprehensible emotions inside me and my characters.