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

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.

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

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.

Compatibility doesn't determine the fate of a marriage, how you deal with the incompatibilities, does.

He had been held to her by a beautiful thread which it pained him to spoil by breaking, rather than by a chain he could not break.

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch

Occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile."..' Opportunity is fleeting, experiment dangerous, and judgement difficult.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

A miracle constantly repeated becomes a process of nature.

You can't always be the most talented person in the room. But you can be the most competitive

Rome got some peachy pastings when she tried to lick the Irish.

It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam — which, let me make it very clear, I have not done — than it is to speak honestly about [working moms].