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Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot.

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

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.

In a world and a life that moves so fast, photography just makes the sound go out and it makes you stop and take a pause. Photography calms me.

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

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

I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.