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 Read Quote
If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love. Rithy Panh Read Quote
I’m not someone who has to make a film at any cost. I have to find the right way to make it or not at all. Rithy Panh Read Quote
S21′ was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened. Rithy Panh Read Quote
The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried to do in ‘The Missing Picture’ was to reconstruct our identity, to bring it back to the people through cinema. Rithy Panh Read Quote
When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me. Rithy Panh Read Quote
