Quotes About Immersion

Imogen Poots loves music to death and can literally name 300 bands that she listens to, that you've never heard. She's so heavy into the underground music scene. When she's speaking on music, she means it.

When I prepare for a role, I try to get inside the character's head and understand him.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

I get very caught up in the day-to-day and immersed in the scenes as they unfold. It's harder for me, as I'm filming, to see the larger story.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

If you read the novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and hearing the accent. You are a sponge at that age, soaking everything up.

I was such a sponge with music.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

Museums are like sports stadiums, hotels and hospitals: they are in the category of captive-audience dining.

I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

I'm very invested in 'Youngblood' at all stages.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

It's hard to get lost in a scene, to get into a character when everyone's standing around you on the set.

If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

I sat down on the bench and started playing, instantly lost in the perfection of the moment; I was elsewhere.

i am part of everything that i have read

I am a nerd about this sport. I know guys' records, who they fought, how they win, who they're married to, where they eat dinner, what kind of car do they drive. I'm a big nerd of the sport, so it would be easy for me to sit in front of a table of guys and just talk about fighting.

When I came here I moved to London and I was meeting so many new people and had to speak only in English, which is not my native language.