Quotes About Immersion

I don't like 3D movies that have things popping out of the screen. Firstly, I find it straining on my eyes, and more importantly, it distracts me from the movie.

I am one with the popular culture.

Sometimes you become friends with the characters you portray.

I feel it's very important for an actor to believe in the character that he/she is playing and do full justice to it in order to convince others that you are the character you are portraying.

The deaf community is nearly never portrayed accurately on television/film because most writers never took the time to immerse themselves in the deaf culture before portraying it on television. They also never got to know their deaf actors.

It definitely does take some time to get accustomed to the character you're portraying and takes an equal amount of time to get out of it.

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

When I finish a film, I want to feel drained. I want to feel like I couldn't have possibly done any more to service a character and a story.

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.

My biggest bit of advice would be to spend some time actually helping caterers or Chefs, even if it has to be for free or as an intern of culinary externship. It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

I don't know any other way of doing a show besides being completely consumed by it and the character.

Contentment is work so engrossing that you do not know that you are working.

Certain games, I think it's great that they give you a continuing experience.

I'm a big 3-D convert.

Before the film begins shooting, in your head, you need to be the character. You have to convince yourself somehow.

I think, for every actor, the most challenging part of playing a character, specially a real-life character, is to convince yourself that you are the character.

As an actor, I need to convince the audience that the character that I'm playing is real, and the situation that this character is in is also real.

Not many know, but the costumes of your character can really help you to get into the skin of the character.

When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where I feel like I'm covering myself in it or totally immersing myself in it, so that everywhere I'm looking, everywhere I'm going, it's through the lens of that idea. And that's sort of what I do with the music - I try to lose myself in it.

I have always felt responsible for every character I played, devoting myself to learning everything about the craft.

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

A way into a creative mind is to really step into their shoes. Do what they love most or try out their art.