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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

There's an incredible fascination for that and that goes with violence and everything else in pictures.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness.

Family photo albums are so powerful in that they make kids feel valued, cherished and respected.

In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.

We shoot with three cameras, try to shoot both sides of coverage if possible. That allows the actors to overlap and to find moments that feel more authentic and real than what you sometimes would normally get in a scripted drama that's shot more classically. And that's something in 'Parenthood' that has evolved.

Sometimes when I'm watching television and something, an image, will come on that has to do with 9/11 or some of these families telling their stories, or children talking about drawing pictures of airplanes flying into towers, you know, I find myself still choking up.