Bates Motel Quotes

I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes.

Derek: "I'm not staying in Bates Motel." Britt: "It's not Bates Motel." Derek: "Yes, it is. Look at it." Britt: *Rolls her eyes.* "It's not even a motel. It's a hotel." Derek: "Fine, Bates Hotel." *Points at the hotel.* "Look. There's Norman standing on the balcony, waiting.

It was a disturbing display of oil money that looked as if Tara mated with the Bates Motel.

By the third hole, Jack had already dropped three strokes off the lead. His complexion was cartoon Casper. His eyes were as vacant as the Bates Motel, his shoulders slumped like bags of wet peat moss.

This place really was the Bates Motel. They were probably lucky to get out alive.

We’re like the Bates Motel of changes,” I say in disbelief. “Changes go in but never come out. Within a month, we’ll have thousands of changes that we’ll be carrying around, all competing to get implemented.