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00:00 I like to be center stage, taken with big parts.
00:05 I'm not interested in being worthy.
00:08 I'm not interested in being virtuous and standing there for the good of the company.
00:13 I'm simply not interested in that.
00:15 I say, "Bollocks."
00:18 In 1991, in The Silence of the Lambs by Jonathan Demme,
00:22 Anthony Hopkins achieves worldwide success
00:25 playing a cannibalistic psychopath imprisoned in a cage.
00:29 The most famous serial killer of all time, Hannibal Lecter.
00:33 Even though he was on screen for only 20 minutes throughout the movie,
00:37 it's enough to propel him to the top of Hollywood at almost 60 years old
00:41 and after more than 30 years of acting.
00:44 The biggest directors fight over him,
00:46 like Francis Ford Coppola, who casts him in Dracula.
00:49 Action!
00:51 Mina!
00:55 Even Steven Spielberg wants him to play the President of the United States in Amistad.
01:00 You're coming down, you're the secretary.
01:02 This is a better location.
01:05 Have you seen the house we've done this?
01:07 No.
01:08 You're going to love this.
01:10 1992 is a turning point for him.
01:12 In addition to becoming the favorite actor of James Ivory,
01:15 it's also the year that he is cemented among the greatest actors of all time
01:19 for his iconic role in The Silence of the Lambs.
01:23 And the Oscar goes to Anthony Hopkins.
01:27 I thought when I got up there to take the Oscar,
01:32 I thought, well, now I can do some bad films, which I proceeded to do.
01:35 It doesn't matter, really.
01:37 I touched the ceiling of my life, I suppose.
01:40 I love the coldness of life.
01:44 I love the inevitability of it all.
01:48 [The Silence of the Lambs]
01:52 [The Center for Autonomous Media and the Digital World]
01:57 [BLANK_AUDIO]