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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 soaps on TV, take two or three hours to fancy up yourself, and then you start waiting for customers. That's your life. And some days no customers come. There's no party. There's nothing. You sit there and wait. If you're educated you can read books, but in Bangladesh and most other places you watch TV or listen to music or cook.