Quotes About Immersion

There's a difference between visiting a place and experiencing a place.

My attraction to her is doubtless based on my sudden immersion into the absolute foreign company of women, a chronological receptiveness, and certain chemicals in the body." He scowled. "And her eyes.

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea's consoling silence.

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.

The whole sort of debate of classic objective journalism versus a new immersion journalism - that can go on forever... I made no bones about my position: I don't think you can be objective.

I'm really not a fan of letting the audience live vicariously through stuff.

If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa.

If you are playing a Hispanic character who has to speak in dialect or in an accent, nail that dialect or accent. When I hear a character that's supposed to be Cuban speaking with a Mexican accent or vice versa, it grates on me and immediately pulls me out of the story.

I don't really rely on watching video monitors. They put you at a certain distance from your actors, and it makes me feel less a part of what's really happening in the scene.

Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.

I'm such a huge sports video game fan. These games are getting so realistic, it's amazing.

If I play a video game, I have to get through the whole thing. Like, when the new 'Resident Evil' comes out, I have to sit and do the whole thing. It will consume my life. I'm at a point where I don't have much time to play around anymore, so I don't really get started on the games if I won't be able to finish them.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

It's all so surreal seeing yourself in a video game.

I'm a believer that players are good self-directors, and I think one thing that's good about video games is they can direct their own experience.

I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.

I'm not a huge movie buff and I don't watch that much television, but I've spent most of my life playing video games of one kind or another.

The modern video games kind of - they're too three dimensional.

With video games, imagine it's not locked - it's a TV show people can reach in and do this and do that, and you need to have dialog for all of that stuff.