"I was terrified the result would be too fashion. I did some pictures that are close, but I tried to put something else into the picture. Like the one with the shadows was meant to be a little touch of film noir, like an old Hitchcock shot. I said to her the minute she arrived, 'Listen, try not to pose today. If you are going to sit down, then sit down. If you are having a drink at the bar with Alex, then you sit and have a drink in the bar with Alex. You do not sit at the edge of your chair and lean forward.' Because I researched all the pictures she did, and I said, 'You are a tremendous model. Therefore, I need something from you, but it's about portraiture. Let's make it about the photography, rather than a fashion picture.' At the worst, it was going to be 49 percent fashion and never 51 percent." — Albert Watson
