156 Quotes by Annie Leibovitz

When you go to take someone's picture, the first thing they say is, what you want me to do? Everyone is very awkward.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

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

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

As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.

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

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.