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Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.

Who isn't fascinated by evil?

The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

I'm drawn to the psychology of really interesting, flawed people.

Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

In the best stories, people are morally complex; they are flawed. We read them because the world is flawed, and we want to see it truthfully represented. And because it can be thrilling to be shocked and upset, and even to feel, for chilling moments, what it's like to be a bad person.