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Rithy Panh
Rithy Panh
Director
Born: Apr 18, 1964
Good Life Me People Picture You
Related authors: Alfred Hitchcock David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen
Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life. Rithy Panh
Life Water Fire Earth Clay Takes Material Very Form Interesting Fundamental
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people. Rithy Panh
Beautiful People Most Beautiful Country Most Beautiful Thing Most Beautiful Thing Cambodia Thing
It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future. Rithy Panh
Future Better Past Only Better Future Reflecting Create
There is no book-learning culture in Cambodia. People do not read. The children do not read in school. Educators must come up with a policy that meets the great need for knowledge: using modern audiovisual methods that the young can connect with. Rithy Panh
Great Knowledge Culture People School Young Meets Must Come Policy Read Cambodia Methods Educators Up Modern Children Connect Using Need
To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it. It requires a confrontation with reality, with history, with ethics and morals. After identifying good content, you have to find the right form to express that content. Rithy Panh
Good Me History You Reality Ethics Find Morals Something Write Identifying Documentary Content Beforehand Form After Sketch Confrontation Plan Requires Express Right
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA. Rithy Panh
War Culture Country Our Only Also Cambodia
Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom. Rithy Panh
Art Freedom You Defend
As children, we did not have toys. We invented characters and animals; we invented stories. Rithy Panh
Animals Characters Invented Toys Did Children Stories
We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz. Rithy Panh
Creativity More Poetry Auschwitz After Need
I think that, as a filmmaker, you're always making the same film, regardless of how many different stories you tell. This is the case for me, whether I'm making documentaries or fiction films. Rithy Panh
Me You Think Films Tell Case Documentaries Always How Making Same Different Fiction Stories Regardless Whether Many Film Filmmaker
When the Khmer Rouge reached Phnom Penh, the first thing they did was to evacuate the population. Then they took over. The point of a revolution is to bring justice to the people, so even if you don't have proof of sabotage, you manufacture it. Rithy Panh
You Justice People First Revolution Took Proof Sabotage Point Over Reached First Thing Did The First Thing Then Manufacture Even Rouge Population Thing Bring
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away. Rithy Panh
Go Away Cambodia Go Left Escape Really Away Needed
I have only one life, and I can't do all. If I do one thing well, I'm happy. Rithy Panh
Life Happy One Thing Only Well Thing
Evil has always been there; it's always a part of us. Evil is no big surprise. But what about the people who gave freely, who stood up for human dignity? Even in the most extreme and terrible situations, these acts of dignity existed. And for me, that is the banality of good. Rithy Panh
Good Me Dignity People Evil Big Gave Extreme About Part Freely Most Terrible Always Surprise Been Existed Up Banality Stood Situations Human Big Surprise Human Dignity Us Who Even Acts
'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened. Rithy Panh
Memory About How Repeated Years Times Gestures Same Many Film Earlier
I love archival films very much. I spent thousands of hours watching archive footage. Every time I see it, I see something. Sometimes I think I know this footage, but two years later, I see it again, and I see something new. Rithy Panh
Love Time Sometimes Every Think Films Every Time Later Spent Thousands See Something Something New Footage New Hours Know Years Very Again Much Watching Two
Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room. Rithy Panh
You Writing Editing Take Writing Process Documentary Course Does Editing Room Nonetheless Making Process Place Room Actor
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
Me Imagination Films Destroy Locked Locked Up Making Am Still Up Capable Rouge
For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for them, a lot can change. I don't know another way to restore our identity if it's not art. Rithy Panh
Art Change Director Generation Young Our Way See Restore Know Nominated Identity Another Another Way Cambodia Go Lot Them Film
Pain is handed down from one generation to the next. Rithy Panh
Generation Pain Down Handed Next
When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us. Rithy Panh
Soul People Buddha Piece Dead Souls Still Pray Praying Stone Behind Us Who Now Image
People of my generation did not like very much to tell what we lived through during the Khmer Rouge regime. Rithy Panh
Generation People Tell My Generation Through Like Very Did Regime Much Rouge Lived
'The Missing Picture' is about my story and my parents. Before this film, I never said 'I' in a film, so it is very personal. Rithy Panh
Parents Picture Before About Never Missing Said Very Personal Story Film
Film is subjective, and we must be careful with that. The kinds of films I love are those that observe, and I give possibility for people to talk. No need for me to tell people what to think - even when I make a film like 'S-21.' It's only one point of view. It's still a film; it's not a tribunal. Rithy Panh
Love Me People Think Films Those Possibility Tell Tribunal Must Be Careful Kinds Give Only Point Point Of View Observe Like Talk Make Still Subjective View Even Film Need Careful
I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot. Rithy Panh
Good Me People Sometimes Think Good Thing Like Forget Forgetting Cannot Capacity Who Thing
Filming, for me, is a way of approaching, little by little - of getting closer and closer to my subject. And that subject itself can transform, or it can remain the same. Rithy Panh
Me Approaching Way Remain Subject Itself Same Closer Getting Transform Little Filming
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