Michael Glawogger Quotes

#1. 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.

Michael Glawogger

#2. It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

Matthew Henry

#3. 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.

Michael Glawogger

#4. 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 other jobs if they want and put away money, maybe leave when they're 40.

Michael Glawogger

#5. Psychologically speaking (I'll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me), encounters that call up strong physical disgust or revulsion are often in fact projections of our own faults and weaknesses.

Haruki Murakami

#6. 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.

Michael Glawogger

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

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#8. 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.

Michael Glawogger

#9. 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.

Michael Glawogger

#10. The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

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#11. They say everything happens for a reason, that we're destined to meet certain expectations throughout the timeline of our lives. They're inevitable. It's already planned out.

M. Robinson

#12. 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 could be in the same place. Being a man brings the perspective of flirtation.

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

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#14. The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

Wendy E. Long

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

Michael Glawogger

#16. 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 real reason prostitutes take drugs and drink is because prostitution is a party area. It's not about desperation, it's the surroundings.

Michael Glawogger

#17. 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 young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

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#18. As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Bill Watterson

#19. 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 their money. In a way, I had the best makeup artists, hairdressers, and art designers in the world.

Michael Glawogger

#20. The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contained all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obeying him perfectly.

Wayne Grudem

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

Michael Glawogger