Quotes About Immersion

I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

As an actor... at some point you've got to forget that the crew's there in order to do your job.

The audience should feel like voyeurs. Their response is absolutely crucial.

I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.

You create this human being, and then you are that human being for the next six months. It's amazing. I think that's the blessing and the curse of being an actor. You get to be pretty much anything you want to be.

The thing about movies now is in a way what it always was: The screen is huge and now the sound systems are too. And you never get that with TV. Even with a home system, it's never the same.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Once you create a believable fictional universe, you suck the audiences into that world and they tag along for the ride.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all.

I often find during a day of shooting I will speak in an American accent all day long when I'm doing dialogue. At the end of the day, it often takes an effort when I'm talking to my fiancee to bring my English back just because you're so used to speaking that way.

My favorite way of learning for acting has been doing it, not talking about it.

I personally like to talk to people when I'm not doing a scene, still acting as if I'm in Gotham when I'm on set because I don't really like to break character, since I sometimes get distracted. I may get distracted when I'm talking to people and having fun; then I have to check myself.

Usually, when I give talks, I'm 100% there, 100% present.

Study cannot happen until we are subject to the subject.

The Covenant of Place gives us the gift of focus.

There's no denying the benefits of the Internet. But electronic immersion, without a force to balance it, creates the hole in the boat — draining our ability to pay attention, to think clearly, to be productive and creative.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

It is writing that does what only literature can do: transport you to another time and place and acquaint you with emotions and sensations that you otherwise would never feel.

Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.

Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.