You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor countries - they've lost…

- Rithy Panh

When you make a film and it wins some award at a very select, very difficult festival such as Cannes, it's good for your fellow film directors and fe…

- Rithy Panh

If you cannot make moving pictures about yourself, your country and your culture, it's as if you do not exist anymore in this world of images we live…

- Rithy Panh

As Buddhists, statues are more than simply pieces of stone to us. We believe the statue of the Buddha has a kind of soul and is the Buddha in some se…

- Rithy Panh