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

I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's their job and the….

In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream.".

I had to first convince them [prostitutes] that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them they wouldn't necessarily care ….

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

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..

You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take drugs or drink, but the ….

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

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

La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the gir….

Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a ….

If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you sleep. You wake at noon, watch soa….

It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They can work ….

Prostitution will always exist in every society, so I believe in a fair trade. Open the doors for women to earn their money without having pimps. The….

There's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Som….

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….

Whenever a man enters the realm of prostitutes he's always regarded as a possible customer. If you enter as a woman, you're regarded as somebody who ….

A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So you….

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

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..