Annie Leibovitz

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information. ”

I realized I couldn't be a journalist because I like to take a side, to have an opinion and a point a view; I liked to step across the imaginary boundary of the objective view that the journalist is supposed to have and be involved. ”

As a young person, and I know it's hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn't do normally if I was just by myself. ”

I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall. ”

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion. ”

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy. ”

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you. ”

I am impressed with what happens when someone stays in the same place and you took the same picture over and over and it would be different, every single frame. ”

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism. ”

I'm a huge, huge fan of photography. I have a small photography collection. As soon as I started to make some money, I bought my very first photograph: an Henri Cartier-Bresson. Then I bought a Robert Frank. ”