We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future. — Rithy Panh 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
People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime. — Rithy Panh Generation Copy Share Image
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away. — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA. — 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 Cinema 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
'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form. — Rithy Panh 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
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
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 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
To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it.… — Rithy Panh Documentary 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 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
There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up… — 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 Character 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 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
“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
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
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
In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past. — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film. — 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 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
Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life. — 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 Alive Copy Share Image
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. — Rithy Panh Animals 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
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
