And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.
Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
All I'm armed with is research.
The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
The real victims of men are other men.
Mostly, research is much more fun than the actual writing.
By all measures men are the more violent gender.
Generally, I just think there is a real lacking in men knowing how to hit on women.
When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.
I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process.