Aiming for the marathon is a task of sorts which can include terrific highs and lows.
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 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. "
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.
The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream. "
Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door.
God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.
If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too. " In dreams you often fall before you wake.
Don't disrespect the sword marshmallow.
There are times as a parent when you realize that your job is not to be the parent you always imagined you'd be, the parent you always wished you had. Your job is to be the parent your child needs, given the particulars of his or her own life and nature.