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
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 do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and… — Rithy Panh Case 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 wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me. — Rithy Panh Choice Copy Share Image
Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing… — Rithy Panh Day Copy Share Image
Filming, for me, is a way of approaching, little by little - of getting closer and closer to my subject. And that… — Rithy Panh Approaching Copy Share Image
I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But… — Rithy Panh Forget 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
Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day. — Rithy Panh Every day 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 Capable 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 Alive 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 Always Copy Share Image
If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in… — Rithy Panh About yourself 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
Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual.… — Rithy Panh Destroy 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
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 Clay 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
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
