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

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.

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

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.

If you're going to hit a car, try to be sure that it's not a cop car

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

It's better to develop hobbies and interests than to have ideas about things.

Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

Quite often, while I'm getting up in the morning, I think my warranty is running out on these body parts because it's not working quite the way it used to.

It's like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for 'Harry Potter'.

To my mind the old masters are not art their value is in their scarcity.

I always say that one has no right to hope without endeavor.

The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.

Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is.