Quotes by Cambodian authors
We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
I didn't survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took my place. My job is to give them back their dignity, tell their story, and say their names.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
I have never been political in a partisan sense.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
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
Cambodian film director
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
Cambodian film director
I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone.
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia
Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers.
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia
Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
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
Cambodian film director
The trial organized with U.N. participation of some kind will be for crimes committed by Khmer Rouge leaders from 1975 to 1979. That's it.
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia
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
Cambodian film director
Part of the Khmer Rouge project was not only to destroy individual people, but to destroy the very notion of the individual. I want to simply rebuild the stories of people - it's part of my fight against the Khmer Rouge agenda.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
John Foster Dulles had called on me in his capacity as Secretary of State, and he had exhausted every argument to persuade me to place Cambodia under the protection of the South East Asia Treaty Organization.
Norodom Sihanouk
Former Prime Minister of Cambodia
We have lost the art of sharing and caring.
Hun Sen
Prime Minister of Cambodia
'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
Cambodian film director
To find money to make a film, you have to write maybe 50 pages to explain what you'd like to do, what the film will be, but everybody lies. Because he doesn't know what the film will be. Everybody writes 50 pages and sends it to a TV channel, a producer, to get money, but everybody lies. Or else your film is not interesting.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
Cinema is not truth. Even when you make documentary films, you can choose to show this shot and not the other shot - this side and not the other side. In cinema, there's one truth - not 'the truth.' It's only 'my point of view.' Cinema is powerful because of that.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.
Rithy Panh
Cambodian film director
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