I'm not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened. — Rithy Panh Film Copy Share Image
'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
Cannes or Oscars is not only to bring happiness and recognition - they protect people like me. The world knows who you… — Rithy Panh Cannes Copy Share Image
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for… — Rithy Panh Art Copy Share Image
Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I didn't survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took… — Rithy Panh Family Copy Share Image
Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual.… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I love archival films very much. I spent thousands of hours watching archive footage. Every time I see it, I see something.… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
With 'The Missing Picture,' we'd shot for a year and a half already when this idea of the clay figurine, the life… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor… — Rithy Panh Character Copy Share Image
To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it.… — Rithy Panh Documentary Copy Share Image
Evil has always been there; it's always a part of us. Evil is no big surprise. But what about the people who… — Rithy Panh Big sur Copy Share Image
When I make a film, I don't watch a lot of other films. I read a lot; I try to read poems,… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to… — Rithy Panh Image Copy Share Image
When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
