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...which means they were answering questions rather than trying to kill people^W^W amuse themselves.
Usually, these villains actually find it amusing to see humans fail to grasp their motivations, and/or are stalling in order to get an opening through which to kill people.
I don't feel like enumerating examples, but I feel like I usually don't find it convincing (and that it's usually the heroes stalling and the villains helpfully cooperating).