Quotes About Immersion

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

When I work, I disappear into work, which I like to do, and sometimes I don't really have a choice. It's not a conscious thing. It's just total devotion to what I'm doing.

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our surroundings to an almost morbid degree.

I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally.

I like the idea of infiltrating an area that is not really exposed to me or my work.

It's easy to forget that your best work is done when your attention is fully engaged.

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

The thing that sticks to me most about theater is that because it's such an ape crazy nonstop experience, you really don't have time to think about anything else. You're just really present; you have to be, or else, you know, you can't stop the play.

People need to stop filming things at festivals.

The first job of a storyteller is to make the reader feel the story, to get the reader to live in the skin of the character.

I want to figure out what comes after cinema as the gold standard for storytelling.

People come to museums for storytelling and engagement, and the technology needs to facilitate that.

We feel a lot of the future of storytelling is going to be in the VR space.

VR should offer an experience that's more exciting than watching in 2D, and we're pretty good at 2D storytelling, so the bar's already pretty high.

In the end, you don't want music to be noticed as much as digested and integrated into the storytelling. And make audiences sit forward in their seats and enjoy the movie.

When you make a film, you realize that the audience will be powerless to stop it or flip back to refresh their memories or skip the boring parts. They are at the mercy of your storytelling.

I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in games is that people tend to separate story and interactivity. Both should be conceived as one entity, each using the other.

I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

QTE is a very strange thing... it really depends on what you expect from your game experience.

I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.

Ao invés de pensar em nós mesmos apenas como observadores, trilhando nosso caminho ao redor dos objetos espalhados pelo chão de um mundo já formado, devemos imaginar-nos, em primeiro lugar, como participantes, cada um imerso com todo nosso ser nas correntes de um mundo em formação: na luz solar nós vemos, a chuva na qual ouvimos e o vento no qual sentimos.

Real work and real satisfaction come from the opposite of what the web provides. They come from going deep into something