C. J. McCollum Quotes

You do as much research as you can for any project.

All I'm armed with is research.

I think you start to prepare the minute you read something.

I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

I pride myself on leaving no stone unturned as far as being the most prepared that I can be.

I won't write about a subject unless I've mastered it.

You have to be able to deep dive and know your stuff, otherwise you'll get called out on it.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.

I will not go into a story unprepared. I will do my homework, and that's something I learned at an early age.

People think I just walk up to a sheer cliff and climb it with no knowledge of anything, when in reality, there's tons and tons of information out there, and I'm already well tapped into it.

I love research. When there's something that I like, I want to know everything about it. I want to know exactly what was behind it, and where it went from there.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.

Knowledge is power. You can't begin a career, for that matter even a relationship, unless you know everything there is to know about it.

Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.

The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.

The thing about anything in life is you have to get ready for it. Study, learn.

I'm big on research.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

You cannot prepare enough for anything.

As an actor, you have to have your history.

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.

Confidence comes from knowing what you're doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.