The Silence of the Lambs1991

Hannibal Lecter:
People will say we're in love. [He clucks at her with his tongue] Anthrax Island. That was an especially nice touch, Clarice. Yours?

Clarice Starling:
Yes.

Hannibal Lecter:
Yeah. That was good. Pity about poor Catherine, though. Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock.

Clarice Starling:
Your anagrams are showing, doctor. 'Louis Friend?' Iron Sulfide. also known as fool's gold.

Hannibal Lecter:
Oh Clarice, your problem is, you need to get more fun out of life.

Clarice Starling:
You were telling me the truth back in Baltimore, sir. Please continue now.

Hannibal Lecter:
I've read the case files. Have you? Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages.

Clarice Starling:
Then tell me how.

Hannibal Lecter:
First principles, Clarice: simplicity. Read Marcus Aurelius, "Of each particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?" What does he do, this man you seek?

Clarice Starling:
He kills women.

Hannibal Lecter:
No, that is incidental. What is the first and principal thing he does, what needs does he serve by killing?

Clarice Starling:
Anger, social acceptance, and, uh, sexual frustration …

Hannibal Lecter:
No, he covets. That's his nature. And how do we begin to covet, Clarice? Do we seek out things to covet? Make an effort to answer, now.

Clarice Starling:
No. We just …

Hannibal Lecter:
No. We begin by coveting what we see every day. Don't you feel eyes moving over your body, Clarice? And don't your eyes seek out the things you want?