Piper Laurie recalled her co-star Anthony Perkins in Charles Winecoff's book Split Image: 'I thought he had great vitality, great energy, and I thought he was very, very cute. I loved his shoulders. He had a sexuality about him that he never really used in the films that he did, beyond the early ones. Later he became so intense, kind of brittle. His intellect - he was extremely bright - overshadowed what I perceived then as an innate sensuality.'