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
It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities. — Rithy Panh Better Copy Share Image
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story. — Rithy Panh Sincerity 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
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 Good 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 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
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. — Rithy Panh Beautiful 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
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. — Rithy Panh Animals 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
“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
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past. — Rithy Panh Cinema 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
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
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
We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy. — Rithy Panh Achieve 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 Cinema 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
'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
