Quotes About Immersion

I always prefer shooting on locations, because when I'm at home, it's harder to sort of get lost in the world of whatever you're making.

When I'm shooting, that's all I do.

I'm so focused on the game that I hardly understand what the people sing or shout or what they do.

I have not tried for a career that's showy. I have always tried to layer things in and not push it. I love an underperformance, where you're so entrenched in who that person is that you're living in it.

When I'm playing I get completely lost in it and I'm not even aware of what I'm doing with my face - I'm just playing.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

I'm one of those people, when I see a film, I believe it to be true. You know, sort of the authenticity of the camera and seeing things on a screen.

When you write scripts, it begins to feel like you're living in them.

When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and that you're part of it. You don't want to be aware of how it's being done; you just want it to feel really seamless.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

In any human endeavor, some fraction of its practitioners will be motivated to pursue that activity with such concentrated focus and unalloyed passion that it will consume them utterly.

When the sex is persuasively rendered, it tends to read autobiographically, and there are limits to my desire for immersion in a stranger's biochemistry.

He was so immersed and implicated in the Internet, so enmeshed in its totalitarianism, that his online existence was coming to seem realer than his physical self.

Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.

entered a kind of trance of not-herselfness.

When I'm writing I don't want anyone else in the room - including myself.

She was also the most lonely and sad. She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could b divided into its infinite spectrum.

frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.

To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

Mindig azt mondtam a tanítványaimnak, hogy ne csináljanak bibliográfiát, ne olvassanak kritikákat, olvassák magukat a m?veket; lehet, hogy keveset fognak belÅ'lük érteni, de élvezni fogják az olvasást, és mindig hallani fogják valakinek a hangját.

Exhibitions are precisely what we shouldn't trust, because they are so seductive. We go into a room that we can only walk through in a certain way, and there's a certain lighting scheme, and it might smell a certain way. Whereas when we read something on a blog, we do that in our own home, in the conditions that we have chosen, and we can determine how our body is situated. We just can't do those things in an exhibition.

Baz? kitaplardan hiç ayr?lmad?m çünkü beni hiç s?kmad?lar.

I welcomed my slavish existence as a surgical resident, the never-ending work, the cries that kept me in the present, the immersion in blood, pus, and tears -- the fluids in which one dissolved all traces of self. In working myself ragged, I felt integrated...

After just a week in the hospital, I felt I'd left America for another country. My world was a land of fluorescent lights where day and night were the same, and where more than half the citizens spoke Spanish. When they spoke English it wasn't what I expected in the land of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The bloodlines from the Mayflower hadn't trickled down to this zip code. Three