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I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.
- Rithy Panh
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Totalitarians always want to kill culture. But imagine life without football, Faulkner, or Bob Dylan. It's not life.
- Rithy Panh
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#Culture
#Football
#Imagine
#Life
We need creativity. We need more poetry after Auschwitz.
- Rithy Panh
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#More
#Need
#Poetry
Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.
- Rithy Panh
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#Evil
#Good
#Work
#World
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
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#Me
#Same
#Subject
#Way
It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.
- Rithy Panh
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#Create
#Future
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#Past
In this era of digital special effects, I think it's good to work with our hands and our hearts, to use water and clay, to dry it in the air from the sun. This brings you back to the element of life.
- Rithy Panh
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#Sun
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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.
- Rithy Panh
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#Every
#Film
#Hell
#Master
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
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#Powerful
#Shot
#Truth
#View
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
#Cinema
#Identity
#Past
#Personality
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
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#Good
#Me
#People
#Surprise
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
#Editing
#Place
#Process
#Room
#Writing
The most beautiful thing in Cambodia isn't the country - it's the Cambodian people.
- Rithy Panh
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#Most Beautiful
#Most
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
#Clay
#Earth
#Fire
#Life
#Water
Cambodia is not only a country of war, but also a country of culture. It's in our DNA.
- Rithy Panh
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#Culture
#DNA
#Only
#War
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