In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
Michael GlawoggerThe most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.
Michael GlawoggerThere's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.
Michael GlawoggerI 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.
Michael GlawoggerLa 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 girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."
Michael Glawogger