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
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film. — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past. — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place… — Rithy Panh Documentary 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 Copy Share Image
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. — Rithy Panh Animals 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
Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life. — 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
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
I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But… — 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 love archival films very much. I spent thousands of hours watching archive footage. Every time I see it, I see something.… — Rithy Panh Cinema 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
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
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
Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual.… — 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… — Rithy Panh 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
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
“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 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
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 Copy Share Image
It's better to live a world where you can hear different languages and sensibilities. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. — Rithy Panh Beautiful 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
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
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
