When you spend a year or two researching a subject, and you're still fascinated by it, that's a good indicator that what you're doing will appeal to others, as well.
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Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.
An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.
But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potential for other people to understand that a lot of things are possible with a sustained effort and that the broadening of experiences is possible and I think that's all art can be.
It's always interesting researching characters and as I get older and the more that I work in this business, I do more and more of it because I realize how important it is.
All I know is that I am constantly intrigued by something I'm doing.
I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
Doors open to you every time you get a different role. So, yeah, the research is my passion; that's why I keep doing it.
It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I need to be interested in the whole thing. I'm not there to be on my own. And if I'm going to be with these people, I'd best be interested in their work.
I get passionate about certain subjects, and then I'll write a whole play around it.
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