Say it Annie! Annie Leibovitz speaks to us....

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While the following are not directly from her videos that we viewed they support many of the thoughts and concepts we viewed.  

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.

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

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

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.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy - your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.

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.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

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

My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds.

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

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

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.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

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.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

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

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

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

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

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