The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

Photography is about light and what it does and how it is captured on a piece of negative.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you.