Annie Leibovitz

You know, it's just I don't understand why people don't think you don't do research.

I mean, you have to.

I mean, you have to know what...

who you're walking in to see and how they've been photographed before and who they are and what they do.

I mean, I love, I always think I'm photographing, you know, not so much what someone looks like, but what they do and who they are, you know?

You know, it's interesting because I'm not too sure myself, you know, what it is that I'm doing.

I'm pretty direct.

And, you know, I stand on the shoulders of so many great portrait photographers that I have it in the back of my head how I'm seeing something.

But, you know, I'm not alone.

I'm like I'm there with the other person.

And it's a very psychological thing.

situation, they have to sort of come to terms with themselves and how they imagine they want to be seen.

I think we, especially as I get older, I really want us to look as best as we can look at whoever we are.

I mean, it's hard to explain.

I can't explain it.

I mean, I think I just, you know, it sounds very corny, but I love what I do.

And I've been doing it a long time and I've had incredible experiences

vehicles to ride on to work with, you know, starting with Rolling Stone magazine and then Banne Faire and then Vogue.

And, you know, I just I love what I do.

And I love photography more than anything in the world.