Quotes About Immersion

You know what it is, when I'm playing a role sometimes, I just tend to stay in that role. It's easier to maintain. We just shot a pilot in a very thick American accent. I feel like the character lives in me. Of course, my family tease me about it.

Being in the thick of things is a good thing.

I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.

By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.

There's no set like a Ryan Murphy set, mainly because it feels like he's built an entire world. He's so thoughtful and meticulous, and every detail is thought about and cared for.

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

To be the student of a teacher was to commit yourself to living in the same atmosphere and breathing the same air; there was nothing intermittent about it. Being

A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Eu leio antropofagicamente: quero devorar aquele que escreveu

It is always the same with mountains. Once you have lived with them for any length of time, you belong to them. There is no escape.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

What kills music in films is when it's done as performance, drawing attention to the fact that someone's in the background playing it.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

Cómo podrás disfrutar del mundo si no es refugiándote en él?

Walking into the crowd was like sinking into a stew - you became an ingredient, you took on a certain flavour.

We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

A lot of acting is private time.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

He would surely have agreed that we were alike where it really counted: we were both hard-core devotees of what I call You-Are-There Reading, the practice of reading books in the places they describe.

To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.

There is ecstasy in paying attention.

What release to write so that one forgets oneself, forgets one's companion, forgets where one is or what one is going to do next--to be drenched in work as one is drenched in sleep or the sea.