Quotes About Immersion

You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.

When you start a company, you become really emotionally involved in it.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

I don't enjoy movies in 3D. I find I can't engage with the story as well.

It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.

The problem is that you can't really read a script saying, 'Hmmm, I'll just see what this is.' You have to go right into it; you have to get engaged with it, and once you are engaged, you want to do it! It's really difficult to get uninvolved.

For me, like anyone, you want to go into a movie and have an enjoyable time where you're just involved.

What I always say is when I am at a club I am enjoying what that club has to offer.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I was supposed to do only one or two episodes of 'Big Little Lies,' but I realized I couldn't just step away.

The thing you do is escape from them by immersing myself in the character you're playing.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

I think how amazing it would be if I wasn't behind the scenes, but just one of the throng out on the floor. Right in the swing of things. The thick of it.

I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.

You either make business your lifestyle, or business becomes your lifestyle.

Long fiction is wonderful and you can lose yourself in it as a reader and as a writer, but short stories don't allow the same kind of immersion. Often the best stories hold you back and make you witness them. This may be one of the reasons some people reject the form. That and the fact that they are harder work to read. A story will not let you get comfortable and settle in. It is like a stool that is so small that you must always be aware of sitting.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

Try to foresee now everything that might make you interrupt your reading. Cigarettes within reach, if you smoke, and the ashtray. Anything else? Do you have to pee? All right, you know best.

and she abandons herself to the flow of reading as if to the sole possible action of life…

Een verlangen was het om alles waar zij naar keek in je op te zuigen, om niets te vergeten, geen moment van deze wereld die haar wereld was geworden: koel, helder, ondoorgrondelijk.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.