Quotes About Immersion

If you're doing something that's period, you've got to live in it, and you've got to make it resonate with you.

I do like books to be quite an intense experience, and that's the kind of novel I respond to as a reader.

I think that being in an environment is a much richer experience than just working on a soundstage.

When I'm not training or playing, I'm watching football or watching something football-related on my phone, or about our next rival.

I came to San Antonio without knowing anything about the city.

Living for football has saturated me.

Being in a new country, learning a new language - it isn't something that scares me.

When I'm on set, I don't really think about what an audience is going to think about a scene. I'm just thinking about how I can make it best. And how I can enjoy myself most.

If it's a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.

If you don't have something that glues the audience to the screen, you're in trouble.

I work from my heart. When I look at the script, I need to feel myself in the character.

I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list.

I want to act every second of every day.

I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

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.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing.

I always wear the shoes of the character a week before going on set; the idea of just putting on a new pair of shoes on the first day of filming is just horrific.

For the score of 'Black Panther,' the heart and soul came from immersing myself in the rich musical history of the griots in West Africa. I was following these brilliant musicians all over rural Senegal, learning their musical language.

I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.

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.

What I wanted to do in talking about basketball in 'Hoop Roots' was retrieve the game as something to participate in, not to watch.