Quotes About Immersion

When I'm performing, the crowd just disappears, it's like everyone merges - one big person. You just say the words and people will say the words back to you. And it's just so rehearsed. I have a lot of songs I couldn't forget the words if I tried. So you get in there, you lose yourself and it's all good.

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

I think for the disaster to work and the drama to work, you really need to feel like you're really in that world.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

Whatever I read went under my skin. I almost devoured the literature, which became like a road to discovery.

We treat human biology as our center point. Everyone already has a head-mounted display. It's your head!

Humans get distracted when we see and touch something.

Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

The more I spend at one position, the more I can dive into those details.

I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.

I'm a serial monogamist - I tend to dive in.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.

For me, the whole idea of performance is not being self-aware, and then sort of just experiencing.

What I love about acting is experiencing the absolute moments of - you know - of getting lost in the world you've created for yourself.

On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

I've never really been a careerist; I've never been able to step back and look at anything in that way. I though this is just what happens. I did take my work very seriously. I loved immersing myself in a character. I loved getting the opportunity to do that. I didn't realize how extraordinary it was, how lucky I was, because I was young.

I can't see any reason why a dramatic story can't be in 3-D. I think 'Lawrence of Arabia' would have been fabulous in 3-D.

The day the audience feel they are watching Parvathy instead of the character, that would be me failing as an actor.

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

Marvel actually sent me to a school in the Bronx where I had a fake name, and I put on an accent, and I went for, like, three days. I basically had to go to this science school and blend in with all the kids, and some of the teachers didn't even know.