Quotes About Immersion

When you read a good book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it" —

I don't listen to film music at all. I don't want to be influenced.

I generally don't feel the need to do more research than is necessary to play the part for me, to inform me.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the characters, the more they see.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.

Stories in which the player doesn't inhabit the main character are difficult for games to handle.

We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

When you're the guy inside of a character and you've lived with it for almost two years, you're always a bit defensive about the character, and you want to root for the character you're playing.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is done.

I'm trying to travel more. Like, intentionally travel. I really want to go and implicate myself in a city and meet people and see how they live and get outside of my world a bit.

The biggest thing you can do in VR that you can't really do in non-VR games is a huge focus on exploration and interaction.

I think the most interesting things happening in VR are going to be somewhere in between what you call a traditional game and what you call a traditional movie.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

To "purify" the senses is to release them, so far as human beings may, from the tyranny of egocentric judgments; to make of them the organs of direct perception. This means that we must crush our deep-seated passion for classification and correspondences; ignore the instinctive, selfish question, "What does it mean to me?" learn to dip ourselves in the universe at our gates, and know it, not from without by comprehension, but from within by self-mergence.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

If God wants there to be unbaptized believers in heaven, that is up to him. All we know and all we can preach is what we read in the Book. And from what we can read in the Book, there is no such thing as salvation, redemption, or justification apart from penitent, faith-prompted immersion.

I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that.

Self-belief cannot be manufactured through obsessive yearning toward one's goals or through the elimination of all "distractions." In fact, it requires the opposite: an empty mind and total immersion in the process that builds the proof of potential that is the only solid foundation for true self-belief.