Quotes About Immersion

I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it.

when one is doing a work of imagination, one becomes completely absorbed in it, and that it becomes difficult to come out into the world and participate in it

Cinema is a very difficult and serious art, it requires sacrificing of yourself. You should belong to it, it shouldn't belong to you. Cinema uses your life, not vice versa.

I think that what a person normally goes to the cinema for is time: for time lost or spent or not yet had. He goes there for living experience; for cinema, like no other art, widens, enhances and concentrates a person's experience—and not only enhances it but makes it longer, significantly longer.

Because make no mistake: the videos we put on for our kids—or the video games we pull up on our phones in our own moments of boredom—are designed, unconsciously or consciously, to produce a bewitching effect. And that effect is achieved by filling a screen with a level of vividness and velocity that does not exist in the real world—or only very rarely. Because it is rare, we instinctively respond to it, and indeed take delight in it.

Sometimes when I am writing, I feel as though I were not reliving the events I describe here, but rather living them. That there is no distance at all, and that I do not know how my story will end. It is an extraordinary sensation, since, of course, I know only too well how it will all end.

I) want to do everything and see everything, sense everything and feel everything and taste everything; to know that life is an enormous experience and must be used. To be in the world, and of the world, and never to stand aside and watch.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

All I could think was that here, finally, for once, I wasn't only watching and reporting but part of this moving, changing world as well.

ireally think that the Book Life,After is the best book i've read this year because i really got into it and actually read at home and liked it

To know how it feels to be a seaweed you have to get in the water.

Era immersa nel suo libro e in se stessa, tanto amabile da vedersi che gli alberi, i cespugli tutt'attorno avrebbero dovuto essere animati e dotati di occhi per ammirarla e goderne.

In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.

To take possession of a city of which you are not a native you must first fall in love there.

the essence of Paris is lost if seen through the double glazing of a hotel room or from the top of a tour bus. You must be on foot, with chilled hands thrust into your pockets, scarf wrapped round your throat, and thoughts of a hot café crème in your imagination. It made the difference between simply being present and being there.

a seat belt, smoke in public spaces, or "cross a public roadway while immersed in a virtual reality." Not that much of that sort of thing went on just yet, anyway. Black

Documentary filmmaking ruins you for real life, because you learn to be extremely attentive.

I get very involved in my characters. Sometimes I have a very hard time separating my characters from my life.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

I read books. Avidly, ardently! As if my life depended upon it.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a biography, 'The Grocer's Daughter.'

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.