Quotes About Engrossment

If you can't move and talk to people that you see, it's not really my scene.

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in, and not just casually observe. Whatever my part in it, just as an audience member, I find that exciting.

I like a movie that the audience actively has to participate in and not just casually observe.

I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.

If we're all talking about something that doesn't matter, it can be bean talk. If we're talking about something that we're talking about together, it could be bean talk.

There's something really special when you take an audience and instead of just being passive and watching, you invite them to participate.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

We are not merely spectators of the world but investors in it

It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things like stories or books or movies or TV. I just get, like, completely enamored and lost in that world, especially when one really hits the right way. Like, I just can't do anything else.

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people.

The whole point of getting engrossed in something that interests you, is that you dissolve into it, the more the intensity...the more you become vapor - you dissolve. In fact, there is no you to judge, to see... only emptiness within, that is the whole purpose of life... at least my life!"

I would rather talk to a face than a camera.

I'm definitely caught up in the Kool-Aid of true-crime stories.

A reader is not supposed to be aware that someone's written the story. He's supposed to be completely immersed, submerged in the environment.

Please assume that I am talking continuously in all the scenes that follow until I tell you that I'm not.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

I never want to be a passive observer of life's possibilities.

Ich finde, die Suche nach einem Geprächsthema ist ein gutes Gesprächsthema.»

We always want to let people leave with some sort of like, "Great, I want to see more." Not, "Oh my God, that's still on?"

The way I see it... If you need both of your hands for whatever it is you're doing, then your brain should probably be in on it too.

Life is for participating, not for spectating.