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

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.

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

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.

Success and perseverance are Siamese twins: where one goes the other follows.

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

If you can fly, don't stop at the sky, 'cause there's footprints on the moon!

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

I would want to make Radio Haiti as independent as possible, which means it can't be strictly commercial.

You only fail if you don't finish the game. If you finish you win. You have to measure what you started out with by what you overcome.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

The fashionable idiocy that haters must have justifications is one of those ideas that George Orwell said only an intellectual could believe -- because no one else could be such a fool.