Quotes About Immersion

With my writing, because I live it, I have to be consumed by it, and that means you have to forget your other life, which is constantly pulling you from your work.

I am too much into what I'm doing in my work.

For you to be effective in your promised land, you must study the land

The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.

I read, write and create. I must lose myself in work, so that there is no space for the other/anything else.

In graduate school, I was a student of E.L. Doctorow, and he had us read 'Moby-Dick' in a week.

I've studied Spanish, but I need to improve. I'll probably improve when I work in the country one day. For most people, when they travel to a country, their language becomes better.

I went to India, lived, and studied.

Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.

I encourage the study of music. And the immersion. 'Cause my life has been so enriched by being involved in music as I have.

The benefits of studying abroad are huge. You can pick up a new language, develop a love for another culture, and pick up new skills, hobbies and work experience to boost your CV.

When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.

When I'm studying English I love to watch 'Friends' or 'Nikita.'

Once I'm committed to a role, I will go very deep into it, even when I'm not at work. I'll keep on studying the script, maybe 40 or 50 times. I might call a scriptwriter at three in the morning to say I've thought of something new.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

I'd love to spend a year at the Sorbonne studying French culture.

One of the things we joke about in the FPS development is it's so hard to get the player to actually bother to look at all the cool stuff you've been doing. You spend a lot of time making really cool things, and usually the player isn't looking where you want them to.

When I research a role it does get a little crazy and maybe even a little stupid.

Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

I did a film, 'X+Y', in which I played somebody on the autistic spectrum. It's a subject I didn't know very much about, but being an actor gives yourself the opportunity to really immerse yourself in that world and learn things. It's one of the great things about what I do.

While it's really hard to do, at the same time, I'm escaping my body, which I really want to do. I'm living someone else's life. I get very intensely into the story, into the interviews and the research. I'm experiencing things along with my subjects. I have a freedom I don't have in my physical life.

I respected it. I submerged myself into it. So on a lot of days off I would go and fish with the fishermen and the families that ran the boats. I would go work the fields with farmers. I would go and talk with farmers about growing particular products for me.

It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.