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.

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.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

How shall a society remember its miners underground while it cannot even remember its homeless above ground?

As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.

Never run with scissors or other pointy objects.

There are certain models who might not be considered beautiful. I think personality is more important than looks.

Art is not a democracy, in fact art is the enemy of democracy

Now that I'm married and have two beautiful children, it really makes me appreciate... being alone.

I have beliefs, of course, like everyone-but I don't always believe in them.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.