'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
'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
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA. — Rithy Panh 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
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
The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried… — Rithy Panh Cinema 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 Cinema 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
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
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 Animation 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 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 Cannes Copy Share Image
When you screen a film like 'The Missing Picture,' it is not like watching TV. Watching TV is very solitary. When you… — Rithy Panh Cinema Copy Share Image
When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The… — 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
