Quotes About Immersion

Some people are shocked when a game evokes real-world issues. But this platform is about becoming the characters, not just seeing them from the outside, like in a film.

In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.

My whole thing is not just to play music for people, but to make them part of the evening.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

As a DP who mostly does features, I'm normally in a director's pocket, 24/7.

If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

I could type in a closet and be fine. It's just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

I hope to be in college football forever.

That's the best thing about being an actor. If you're in a baseball movie, you walk away knowing way more about baseball, or if you're in a sci-fi film, you learn way more about Comic-Con, and so I loved all that.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

I enjoy working away from home as it gives me the space to really commit to the character.

A movie moment in a theatre would never be comparable to the same movie moment elsewhere no matter how cheap the big TV becomes.

I think the biggest compliment an actor can have is if people forget who they're watching and get lost in the character.

When I am at home, I am there and when I'm shooting or doing any other thing, I concentrate on that.

If I'm doing something, I tend to do it in a concentrated way.

It's about concentrating on the football for me.

My music, I hope, takes 100% of your concentration. I know how to do that.

It is all about concentration, and the more games you play, the more you concentrate.

I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.