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Rithy Panh Quotes

- Director | April 18, 1964 -

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

Me Choice Filmmaker Obvious

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.

Me Think You Always Tell Fiction

In all of my films, there is a desire to testify, to interrogate the past.

Past Desire Testify Films

Every time you are getting ready to make a shot in a documentary film, you are asking yourself questions about your cinematographic approach. You are approaching the truth, but the image is never the truth itself.

Truth Time Yourself Questions You

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.

Justice People Revolution You First

'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.

Together Picture Right Missing Found

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

Go Escape Left Away Go Away Needed

I have only one life, and I can't do all. If I do one thing well, I'm happy.

Life Happy Well One Thing Only

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.

Good People Me Evil Surprise Human

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.

Fight People Want Project Individual

I have never been political in a partisan sense.

Political Never Sense Been Partisan

We must be capable of writing our own history.

History Writing Capable Own Must

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