Research Habits Quotes

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

I like to buy things I can understand. I do a lot of research on things.

I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?

I love researching all sorts of weird stuff. I always say, 'God help me if the FBI came across my Internet search history.'

I spent many, many hours in the stack at the University of Washington library just wandering around, when my dad was working, as a kid.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more.

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.

I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.

There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.