I have only one life, and I can't do all. If I do one thing well, I'm happy. — Rithy Panh Happiness Copy Share Image
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film. — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past. — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing… — Rithy Panh Day Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. — Rithy Panh Beautiful Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story. — Rithy Panh Personal story Copy Share Image
It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place… — Rithy Panh Documentary Copy Share Image
Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. — Rithy Panh Animals Copy Share Image
In this era of digital special effects, I think it's good to work with our hands and our hearts, to use water… — Rithy Panh Animation Copy Share Image
Filming, for me, is a way of approaching, little by little - of getting closer and closer to my subject. And that… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
When you screen a film like 'The Missing Picture,' it is not like watching TV. Watching TV is very solitary. When you… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good… — Rithy Panh Cannes Copy Share Image
When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
Film is subjective, and we must be careful with that. The kinds of films I love are those that observe, and I… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in… — Rithy Panh About yourself Copy Share Image
As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind… — Rithy Panh Art Copy Share Image
“But I’ve never seen a free exchange. A gift is something else. I lived for four years in a society without currency,… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
To find money to make a film, you have to write maybe 50 pages to explain what you'd like to do, what… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me. — Rithy Panh Choice Copy Share Image
We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer… — Rithy Panh Alive Copy Share Image
Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
The Khmer Rouge can't destroy me. I still have my imagination and am capable of making films. I am not locked up. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime. — Rithy Panh Generation Copy Share Image
