Quotes About Immersion

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into.

Once you're involved in the work, it's really just you and the characters and the words.

I immersed myself in the police work and I guess drumming wasn't even a hobby, just something my body naturally wanted to do, tapping stuff.

A talent is a combination of something you love a great deal and something you can lose yourself in - something that you can start at 9 o'clock, look up from your work and it's 10 o'clock at night.

At the end of the day, if you don't identify with the main characters, no television show will work.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

I'm the kind of person [who] when I'm doing a play, and even when I'm working, I don't do anything else. When I'm working, I just work.

When you make a movie like 'Straw Dogs,' your goal is to have people's eyes remain glued to the screen. It serves you no purpose to turn away from the screen.

When you are watching a show on a streaming channel, the effect is immediate. It affects your psyche and the relationship that you share with a character on screen is much deeper and intense.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

From Noah Baumbach, I learned to have a strict no cell phone policy on set. There is nothing that bums you out more than looking over and seeing somebody on their smartphone, and that goes for actors and everyone else.

There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes.

The beautiful thing about acting is that you can just dive into the character, strip yourself of everything, and just get in there and perfect your craft.

My goal with 'Beyond' is really to create a strong sense of empathy between the player and Jodie Holmes.

It's hard to hold the focus that strongly on a single character for that long.

I've played in bands myself, and sat on the floor photographing some of the greatest bands in the world while they rehearse. What's always struck me is how different the sensory, especially auditory, experience is when you're in the middle of the music with the musicians playing off each other around you.

Once I get an opponent, I'm locked into him.

I think the best way to become a character is by osmosis as opposed to thinking directly about stuff.

I figure out who I'm playing opposite, and I really do study them.

If someone has already done a role I'm about to do, I won't watch the original until after I'm finished playing the role.

When I arrive at a club, I always look at it like I'm going to stay all my life. I couldn't work like I do otherwise.

Jazz musicians, in a way, are nerds. We are so in our world.

When you're an outsider and going into a culture like America, it's easier to stay away from any cliches because you're not really aware of what they are.