Quotes About Immersion

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

I'm always just referencing whatever I'm listening to or wherever I am musically.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

I don't think I ever watched a movie without being totally immersed in the story. But at the same time, I had to keep some distance from it. I had to question what the narrative was trying to tell me or was injecting in my brain.

It's sort of like baseball - the more you know about baseball, the more you get into a baseball game. NASCAR is the same way.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

Anything that I'm naturally curious about, I get really into. Maybe it's O.C.D. I get really consumed by something until I absorb it, then I'm done with it.

once brought a frog home, hoping to keep him as a pet. Not a large frog, a one-handed frog, quiet and well mannered. My mother made me release him, then cleanse myself in the immersion pool (the mikveh) at the synagogue. Still she wouldn't let me in the house until after sunset because I was unclean.

Lift yourself up, plug yourself in, immerse yourself in the wisdom of Torah, and ignite the love and joy within your heart.

Once upon a time, chimaera descended by the thousands into a cathedral beneath the earth. And never left.

There are cultures on Earth that are more alien than some of the aliens in SF. More extensive quote: "the theme of immersion into different cultures comes naturally to science fiction, since a major theme of the genre is how humans interact with 'alien' cultures. Yet many of the so-called alien cultures of science fiction, particularly in its younger days, felt myopic, more like Western cultures even than other cultures on our own planet.

Don't waste any energy on anything but what's in front of you.

It helps immerse yourself in what you potentially want to do. Being involved, learning firsthand and observing the craft and absorbing all you can, makes it easier to define what you want. It will also ultimately make you a better Chef. Culinary school, or even a single class, is a great bet too.

You can miss an experience by obsessing over how to contain it.

complete submergence of the acquired skill in the subconscious.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

The mark of good writing, in my opinion, is that the reader is not aware that the story has been written; as he reads, the ideas and images flow into his mind as if he were living them.

Total Immersion: The Revolutionary Way to Swim Better, Faster, and Easier.

we need to live fully in the moment and to develop attentive focus on whatever task is at hand.

When I write an email where I outlined a whole scene, it just came out of my unconscious, it comes from a deeper place. The same thing happens when the actors go, take after take, and just get lost in it. When you're in a house, you don't think about being in the house; you're just there.