Quotes About Immersion

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

I did not have to think much doing Bob Biswas in 'Kahaani.'

Once you begin shooting, Bollywood actors get totally involved in their roles, and that gives you an edge in getting what you want out of them.

When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way.

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

I don't get bored at all while acting.

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

It was only when I went down south that I started to eat, sleep and breathe football.

Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.

I revisit stories and see if they are still living and breathing, because if you do a film you live with that story for another year. I can't do a film in six months and scoot.

I present, I direct, I act - I do all these things and I live inside this wonderful bubble called entertainment.

I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.

To disappear your complete self into a character is quite difficult. I've tried it 85 times, and I've succeeded two or three times.

The best part of watching any show is that feeling of being sucked in. If I'm watching 'Breaking Bad,' there is something compelling about Walter White.

I can do one 'Breaking Bad' in a night, or one 'Game of Thrones.' But 'House of Cards,' I can really do three in a night. I get sucked in.

It's a pretty heavy thing that happens to me when I'm at competitions. I get so sucked in, I can't really turn it off.

I think, when you're a director, you get sucked into your project whether you like it or not, right?

I'm a sucker for period pieces. There is always great opportunity for research and to delude yourself into feeling like you are in a different time and place.

Sometimes you see films, not just science fiction films, where you get the sense that if the camera were to pan just to the left or the right, all of a sudden you'd be seeing light stands and crew standing around. But with 'Blade Runner,' the beauty of it is that it felt like a real, breathing city.

I think if they suddenly cut away and you realize there is a stunt guy, you're out of the movie.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

3D is obviously not as suited to drama and romantic comedies. But for what I do, I felt that 3D was a very, very appropriate technology.

A person can do a lot of reading and research as I have done. I went to Spain and spent a whole summer there with my family, immersing myself in the culture. But all that isn't really necessary to experience the music.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.