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

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

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

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 worst thing is to criminalize it, because then you open the doors for pimps, criminals, and trading.

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.

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 couple of months.

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