“I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.”

“People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.”