Quotes About Immersion

I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.

For me, I need to fully immerse myself in a script to the point where I'm literally locking myself away for weeks at a time and I just write it. So I can write twelve to fifteen hours in a day, with breaks in between, obviously, but I need to just sort of live within the world of the script.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.

In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western culture, we don't have that, and horror is a place you can be immersed in it.

Like my constituents, I have had to immerse myself in the detail about HS2 precisely because of the massive and permanent impact it would have on the area I represent.

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

I think I prefer 3D to 2D now.

First of all, the actor needs to get out of the character's way. You follow the character without judgment or prejudice or preconceived ideas.

You have to be sharp when the camera's rolling. I want to be totally unselfconscious, like a child playing. I do as much prep as possible so I can lose myself for those seconds.

Losing yourself in the character opens you up in a way that no amount of precise preparation can.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

As an actor, it is my job to prepare for the role I am playing.

I love to prepare for my roles.

If I'm preparing for something and I've got a huge day the next day, I have to get into character the night before to assess the scene. I can't assess a scene unless I'm in character, if that makes sense.

Be present and in the moment.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

Actors sometimes immerse themselves into it so deeply that the line between who they are and their character can become blurred. For me, I think it's just about getting clearer on my whole life and who I am in order to make it possible for me to play whatever character is presented to me at a particular time.

Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

I try to get into a headspace where I pretend like this is the first time Im ever hearing this song, and I get into that and I just try to discover it. I found that if I really put my head in that space then I can get into it. I can discover it all over again.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

When I get a role, I try to delve as deeply as possible into the character.