Quotes About Immersion

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

I think that there's something really special about doing a series. You get inside the skin of that character 'cause it's such a long time.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

When I make a movie, I completely dive into it and I can't really take anything in at all, at that time.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

Probably my favorite thing about watching a movie that I'm in the first time is to see all the things I didn't know were happening in a scene around me.

I just saw the movie for the first time in its entirely last night. It's really cool when you're in with an audience that's so tuned in and plugged in to what's going on.

I relish the eight-hour format of a single season because it gives you time to do that.

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.

Whenever I do something I tend to focus on it and spend all of my time and energy on it.

Until you have wasted time in a city, you cannot pretend to know it well.

I like being able to just turn the microscope on a small number of people, get to know them, drop into their lives for a period of time.

I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it.

with me losing myself in such a dream, over and over again too . . .

She kept watching the words.

We both laugh and run and the moment is so thick around me that i feel like dropping into it to let it carry me.

It was pointless. The crowd was itself. There was no swaying it, squeezing through, or reasoning with it. You breathed with it and you sang its songs. You waited for its fire.

I still remember staying up all night to get it done, and I realize that's always the best time to finish a book. The sun is yet to come up. It seems the whole world is asleep, and there you are, on your own, with the pages set before you.

The problem with a book is that you never know what it's planning to do to you until you're too far into it.

All media work us over completely.

Then they say that they are taken out of this world, but I don't want to be out of this world, I want to be absolutely in it, all of the time.'LF

One does not simply read books... one climbs inside them and lives there.

A resident has a distinctive vantage on medicine. You are an insider, seeing everything and a part of everything; yet at the same time you see it anew.