As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense.

In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door.

I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way.

If you connect with someone just once, that's something. But if you can connect twice, that's something else.

I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.

The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.

On one hand, they [prostitutes] don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

Dubstep makes me feel confused and my headache get fixed, from chillstep I get sad - That's my story!

LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

Fortunately for me I was able to do well here, and it really did great things for my career and now hopefully I can go out there and continue to do what I did.

Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo plant from a bamboo plant.

I don’t like to do negatives. There are always pluses to things.