Quotes About Immersion

In a movie, you're just passive; you're just watching a story that is told to you. But in games, I saw that you could be the main protagonist: you could be in the shoes of the hero and make the decisions.

I like getting under the skin of the protagonists of every book I read, it makes the whole story so much more personal.

When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

Mas só a ideia de ler se me desvanece se tomo de cima da mesa um livro qualquer, o facto físico de ter que ler anula-me a leitura.

Everything in our activities that we hold to be superior participates in death and is death. What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life? A statue is a dead body, chiselled to capture death in incorruptible matter. Pleasure itself, which seems to be an immersion in life, is in fact an immersion in ourselves, a destruction of the relations between us and life, an excited shadow of death.

You know, it's cool to be on a show and become a fan of it while you're on it.

I was far away from Marathi literature, theatre, arts, everything. I was a late entrant to it.

I enjoy things that are so far away from me; that's why, when I play things that are a little bit closer to me, I get really bored. When it's something that's the antithesis of what I am, there's much more to lose yourself in.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

If your feet are in Fresno, Calif., that's where your head needs to be. That's where your mind needs to be. You don't need to be thinking about anything else other than the next game you're going to play.

In my experience, very few people walk out of a movie. You have them for two hours, and you're free to explain or not explain whatever you see fit.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

You can do all the film school you want in classrooms, but if you are on the set, you are going to learn so much more because you are really in the middle of doing it.

This is the best film school there is, just to make movies and be there on set.

I like to be in character a good few hours before I arrive for filming.

You get so deep into something when you are filming, it's almost like writing it again when you are in the edit.

As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're telling.

When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished.

I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.

I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, 'cause you don't learn any language better than in the country itself.

To be able to research directly from firefighters makes all the difference in the world in the authenticity of a performance.