Annie Leibovitz

It's hard to watch something go on and be talking at the same time. ”

I fight to take a good photograph every single time. ”

I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don't think this is possible all of the time. ”

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. ”

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me. ”

There certainly are people who are a pain to work with. I'd be crazy to name them. You can't be indiscreet in this business. ”

As fantastic as it is to have 'Vogue' and 'Vanity Fair' as places to work, I don't often get to shoot the kind of things I like to photograph in the way I like to photograph. ”

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do. ”

I admired the work of photographers like Beaton, Penn, and Avedon as much as I respected the grittier photographers such as Robert Frank. But in the same way that I had to find my own way of reportage, I had to find my own form of glamour. ”

I feel very proud of the work from the '80s because it is very bright and colorful. ”