Quotes about Immersion

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Salt water is the greatest component of our world, yet some people never see an ocean. That doesn't change the ocean. It is constant and powerful, and like the love of God, whether we're immersed in it, standing on the shore, or a thousand miles away, it remains.

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

You can think of concentration as the capacity of the mind to sustain an unwavering attention on one object of observation.

We want something else which can hardly be put into words—to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.

Indeed, the only purpose of the game is to prevent it from coming to an end, to keep everyone in play.

With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

One great cause of failure is lack of concentration.