The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. Celia Green
History is the history of human behavior, and human behavior is the raw material of fiction. Most people recognize that novelists do research to get the facts right - how a glove factory works, for example, or how courtesans in imperial Japan dressed. Amy Waldman
The best way to do research is to make a radical assumption and then assume it's true. For me, I use the assumption that object oriented programming is the way to go. Bill Joy
To do the writing, I have to have time to do research. Jean-Jacques Annaud
I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing. Tim Robbins
i've always wanted, basically, to do research in the form of a spectacle. Jean-Luc Godard