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I get ideas from my own personal experiences, from my imagination, and from my research and from old stories.

What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

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.

I'm drawn to opportunities that are going to challenge me and cause me to look outside of my own experiences.

For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.

You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

I have always focused on basic research, motivated by a desire to understand the world.

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.