Quotes About Immersion

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want.

She buried herself so deep in the book no harm could ever find her.

The camera is an excuse to be someplace you otherwise don't belong. It gives me both a point of connection and a point of separation.

It's not really about collecting the thing itself," Laroche went on. "It's about getting immersed in something, and learning about it, and having it become part of your life. It's a kind of direction." He stopped on the word "direction" and chortled. "If anybody had a plant I didn't have, I made sure to get it. It was like a heroin addiction. If I ever had money I would spend it on plants.

I grew up in libraries, or at least it feels that way.

He called for it to be planted with olive trees, cypress, viburnum, and magnolia, all plants that might have been found in a classic Roman garden, which he felt would continue the experience of intellectual immersion.

Do you find this...distracting?

I came to the States less to find fortune and fame and more to kind of have a life experience of seeing something new.

It's not just about learning the dialogue and facing the camera, you must somewhat live the role and not always be acting it.

That is something that I always want to do when I arrive somewhere is to know about the culture of the country, about the club and make sure I know what it takes to wear the jersey.

I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.

When a doctor is performing an operation, his mind cannot be somewhere else. And it's the same with actors. You have to commit yourself mind, body and soul to a project in order to do justice to it.

I wanted to be completely and totally entrenched, immersed in this football life, this culture all the way, so you don't even have a thought, an inkling, that my mind is somewhere else.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

When I listen to a band like Pink Floyd, I don't know the names of the individual songs, I know the full albums. That's what we want for our albums.

I lived in Nashville for about five years. It was almost like me going to college for my craft. I immersed myself in the songwriting community there. They embraced me, and I made some real friends but also learned so much.

Movie theatre gives a soulful experience.

The only way I know how to do something, as cheesy as it sounds, is to become that character, and it affects me in a not so healthy way.

I don't immerse myself in the Internet chatter because it opens you up to a whole source of danger.

I've lived for two years in Croatia, one year in Japan, Brazil, Spain, and all those different countries.

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

You live out the character of he whom love is immersed in you

Having an assistant (except for the strictly necessary) removes your soul from the game.

those who have more than their skin in the game. They have their soul in the game.