We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy. — Rithy Panh Achieve Copy Share Image
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
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past. — 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 Found Copy Share Image
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA. — Rithy Panh Cambodia Copy Share Image
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. — Rithy Panh Animals 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 Better Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. — Rithy Panh Beautiful 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
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 Chair 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
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 Book learning 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
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
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
If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody… — Rithy Panh Deep 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 Human life 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
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
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
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
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
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away. — Rithy Panh Cambodia 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
It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future. — Rithy Panh Better Copy Share Image
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film. — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
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' 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
'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
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and… — Rithy Panh Clay 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
