Top 30 J R Oppenheimer Quotes

#1. 'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#2. The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#3. I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#4. No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#5. Each and every perpetrator was boastful, usually they would invite me to the places where they killed and I would of course accept those invitations because I could document what happened that way.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#6. If you acknowledge that filming is an occasion where people express things they might not otherwise express, that offers a much more insightful analysis of why documentaries - even of the fly-on-the-wall variety - are powerful.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#7. In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#8. Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our philosophers do not know mathematics and - to go a step further - our mathematicians do not know mathematics.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#9. Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#10. Military rule in Indonesia formally ended in 1998, but the army remains above the law.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#11. I have a British and an American passport.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#12. When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#13. You can get a diamond which is worth 10 cents; you can get a diamond of exactly the same size, which is worth a hundred dollars.

Nicky Oppenheimer

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#14. Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#15. Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#16. Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#17. From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#18. Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#19. Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#20. Although Oppenheimer's mind was not the whiz-bang computer of a John von Neumann or the astral navigation system of a Hans Bethe, it processed other men's original contributions so adeptly that for multifaceted excellence it may well have been the finest scientific instrument of all.

Algis Valiunas

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#21. The diamond business has always been secretive.

Nicky Oppenheimer

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#22. A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#23. I think we are fascinated and scared by evil at the same time. I think it's important not to suppress our fascination but to walk into it with open eyes.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#24. It is proper to the role of the scientist that he not merely find new truth and communicate it to his fellows, but that he teach, that he try to bring the most honest and intelligible account of new knowledge to all who will try to learn.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#25. I can't think that it would be terrible of me to say - and it is occasionally true - that I need physics more than friends.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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#26. Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#27. To put it crudely, 'The Act of Killing' would blast open the space for the more delicate film, 'The Look of Silence,' to do its work.

Joshua Oppenheimer

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#28. The army taught me to sign my name very quickly, and that's stood me in good stead the rest of my life.

Nicky Oppenheimer

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#29. Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa.

Nicky Oppenheimer

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#30. One doesn't necessarily have a mission.

Nicky Oppenheimer

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