Sydney Schanberg Quotes in The Killing Fields (1984)

[last lines - at their reunion, with warm smiles]

Sydney Schanberg: You forgive me?

Dith Pran: Nothing to forgive, Sydney. Nothing.

Jon Swain: If the going gets rough, I heard our best bet's the French embassy.

Sydney Schanberg: Who told you that?

Jon Swain: [faint chuckle] The British embassy.

Sydney Schanberg: If anybody ever gets to read about this, you won't be able to look them in the face!

[first lines]

Sydney Schanberg: Cambodia. To many westerners it seemed a paradise. Another world, a secret world. But the war in neighboring Vietnam burst its borders, and the fighting soon spread to neutral Cambodia. In 1973 I went to cover this side-show struggle as a foreign correspondent of the New York Times. It was there, in the war-torn country side amidst the fighting between government troops and the Khmer Rouge guerrillas, that I met my guide and interpreter, Dith Pran, a man who was to change my life in a country I grew to love and pity.