Quotes About Immersion

A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.

Computers don't seem real to me because there's a sheet of glass between you and whatever is happening.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really.

and said that he still had his evening's reading. He did not do justice to a writer unless he read him on consecutive days and for no less than three hours at a sitting. Otherwise, despite his notetaking and underlining, he lost touch with a book's inner life and might as well not have begun. Sometimes, when he unavoidably had to miss a day, he would go back and begin all over again, rather than be nagged by his sense that he was wronging a serious author.

A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him.

I developed a style of writing: first person, so that you are in someone's shoes, facing their dilemmas, and present tense, so that you have no historians' hindsight, you are in the then and there, not looking back.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

One of Dorian Purcell's rules for living a good life was that no matter what you were doing, whether it was building a giant tech company or banging your mistress, breaking a competitor and driving him into ruin or playing pinball, you had to commit to it as if it was everything, as if your very survival depended on it.

It transformed and sharpened everything she saw, smelled, felt. She could hear the ping of water moving through the pipes and smell metal in the river and hear rodents scuttle along the foundation. Her flesh felt as if it had been freshly slathered over her body this morning. She bet if she tried to guess the thread count of these sheets she'd come close, and her blood raced through her veins like a train moving across a desert at night.

was surprised by his vehemence; while no fonder of bathing than the normal Parisian—who regarded the prospect of immersion with a repugnance akin to horror—

The memory of that sort of wish--the bone-deep need to have contact of any sort, a longing that harrowed the soul, a hollowness that could not be filled--struck me so hard that I couldn't speak. Jamie had haunted me--in spite of all my efforts to immerse myself in the life I had. Would I have found the strength to come back, if he hadn't remained as a constant presence in my heart, in my dreams?

The idea of audiences becoming part of the show is, I think, where theatre is going.

So I do tend to do documentaries where I can move in and out of them.

When I act, I don't even know there's a camera there, don't care.

As an actor there are no drawbacks.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

It isn't that easy to drop character, especially when you shoot for 12 to 16 hours a day for six months.

In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

An actor has to embody a role.

Even in between takes, you emerge yourself. So you don't have a life for six months.

I'm becoming more indulgent and less giving as an actor as I get older. I'm immersing myself more in roles emotionally.