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Art is freedom. If you defend art, you defend freedom.

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If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love.

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I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

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I didn't survive because I was stronger than others. I survived because my family and friends helped me to survive. They took my place. My job is to give them back their dignity, tell their story, and say their names.

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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.

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When I do feature films, I usually have a very strong sense of what I want to do. I have topics and subjects, so I go for it. I even know technically what I want to. But in the case of documentary, the story comes to me.

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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.

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

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I love when you get the feeling of some social reality with a fictional film.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Director

Born: April 18th, 1964

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