Annie Leibovitz

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 didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.

A thing that you see in my pictures is that I was not afraid to fall in love with these people.

A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.