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Rithy Panh Quotes

- Director | April 18, 1964 -

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

Future Past Better Create Reflecting

The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people.

Beautiful People Country Cambodia

We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.

Creativity Poetry More Need After

We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy.

Easy Peaceful Achieve Need Modern

Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it's earth, it's water, and - with fire - it takes on form and life.

Life Water Fire Interesting Earth

Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA.

Culture War Country DNA Only Our

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.

Good History Ethics Me Reality Plan

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.

Knowledge Children Great Culture Up

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.

Good People Me Think Sometimes Like

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's a form; 'Duch, Master of the Gates of Hell' is a different proposal.

Hell You Master Bring Watch Film

Sometimes if you can tell one personal story with a lot of sincerity, it can become a universal story.

Story You Sometimes Personal Become

Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.

Life Culture Football Want Without

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