“'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repe...” — Rithy Panh Quote

'S21' was a film about corporeal memory and how the same gestures repeated many times years earlier can be reawakened.

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

When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

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

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

I did television a lot in my earlier years, so to do the high school student that's just the pretty girl, I've done that before, so I don't have any interest in that.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

Earlier, I did sing for 'Kaante' and a couple of other films but I had never done rap before. Marathi rap is something new and I enjoyed it.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.