Quotes About Immersion

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

If I could read while I was driving, showering, socializing or sleeping, I would do it.

Darren Aronofsky is on another level. You get lost in a scene, and he'll come over and whisper something in your ear, and suddenly everything makes sense.

'Bigg Boss' was the first time I was exposed to a situation where I had to only speak in Hindi. Prior to that, I was learning but never practising.

It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner.

I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

When I'm on the court, I feel all problems go away.

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life.

I've certainly played games that provoked a real emotional response or serious thought processes.

We try to be as much involved in our product as possible, because then it's us.

More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.

I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable.

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

At one point, I took a year off just to listen to music and really digest it. I listened to everything you could imagine.

Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

When I'm directing a movie, nothing else matters.

I don't know how to make movies without getting my hands dirty.

I like to disappear in my roles because I don't have an assistant.

If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.

The reason you do this stuff - comedy, plays, movies - is to be seized by something, to disappear in the service of an idea.

I want to disappear in a role.

As a writer, I don't have a sense of my own position. I try to disappear and not to think of myself at all when I'm working.