Quotes About Immersion

Like good reading skills, good writing skills require immersion and imaginative engagement.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

be fully immersed in the baptismal waters of the Christian faith takes the entire pool of the worshiping community.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public.

The artist's personality must be left in his dressing-room; his soul must be denuded of its own sensations and clothed with the base or noble qualities he is called upon to exhibit ... must leave behind him the cares and vexations of life, throw aside his personality for several hours, and move in the dream of another life, forgetting everything.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That's probably as close to immortal as we'll ever get.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

You get involved with a character after spending a long time waiting, and this demands a lot of energy and concentration.

I was totally absorbed. I was in another world, or another dimension; all sense of time evaporated.

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated.

Every movie soaks into you for a certain amount of time.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

When you shoot a film, you have very little time to waste, and I try to go into the character as soon as possible and stay there as much as I can.

To paint nature you must be in it a long time.

I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

Any time you can completely immerse yourself in something it's fun.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist. When I'm writing and think, "I've been working for two hours," I've actually been working for seven.

I can't make two records at the same time. Whatever I do, I have to concentrate on and put everything in, because if I don't, I'm just not good.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

No matter where she is, it is as though Lol is there for the first time. She no longer experiences the invariable distance that memory provides: she is there, in the present.