If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in this world of images we live in. Because now when we all switch on our smartphones or our… — Rithy Panh 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 a form;… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story. — 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 my place.… — Rithy Panh 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 and clay,… — Rithy Panh 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 approach. You… — Rithy Panh 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 can destroy… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. — Rithy Panh 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 gave freely,… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. — Rithy Panh 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 - this… — Rithy Panh 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, and I… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
