In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film. — 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
I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me. — 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 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 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 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 am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer… — Rithy Panh 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 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 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 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 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 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 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
