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.
“But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.”
“The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.”