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When a regular camera focuses physically, what the regular camera is doing is adjusting the lens relative to the sensor to bring different parts of the scene into focus.

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

DSLRs take beautiful pictures, but they are hard to focus.

The camera is interested in what you are thinking as opposed to just what you are doing or saying.

Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.

Every shot is unique, even if it's just a close-up, an insert of your hand. You've got to work with the guy behind the lens to get it right, focus in. Those are critical little nothing things, but you've got to work with the people who are trying to put it down, in order to get it.

With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.

In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.

Photographs aren't accounts of scrutiny. The shutter is open for a fraction of a second.