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I always have said, you know it's not for me to forgive or to condemn, I'm a filmmaker. — Joshua Oppenheimer

The most beautiful philosophical song existing in any known tongue. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I think Americans are aware that they are involved in all sorts of violence around the world. They normally don't want to look at that. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

One doesn't necessarily have a mission. — Nicky Oppenheimer

I am always a little surprised when anyone sees anything I make, so being nominated for the Oscar is beyond amazing - what a tremendous honor. — Joshua Oppenheimer

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I went looking for embodiments of pure evil, but found ordinary people. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands. — Michael Oppenheimer

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity. — Frank Oppenheimer

Businesses need certainty, to see clearly the rules of engagement for investing in South Africa. — Nicky Oppenheimer

We all need to become more customer-focused and recognize the power of marketing to sell more diamonds. — Nicky Oppenheimer

For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie. — Joshua Oppenheimer

My first memory of cinema is my mother taking me to see 'Silkwood,' which is about a whistleblower at a nuclear power plant. — Joshua Oppenheimer

The diamond business has always been secretive. — Nicky Oppenheimer

For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away. — Joshua Oppenheimer

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Truth, not a pet, is man's best friend. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. — Harry Oppenheimer

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition. — Joshua Oppenheimer

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

To the confusion of our enemies. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there. — Joshua Oppenheimer

I was born in New York in 1904. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird. — Joshua Oppenheimer

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

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

A pragmatist is concerned with results, not reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country. — Joshua Oppenheimer

From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it. — Joshua Oppenheimer

I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

We know too much for one man to know too much. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Nobody ever flunked a science museum — Frank Oppenheimer

The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible. — Nicky Oppenheimer

I'm against escapist entertainment. — Joshua Oppenheimer

I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history. — Joshua Oppenheimer

My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary. — Joshua Oppenheimer

A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters. — Michael Oppenheimer

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality. — Robert Oppenheimer

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

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot. — Frank Oppenheimer

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience? — Joshua Oppenheimer

I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities. — Nicky Oppenheimer

It is only through developing and maximizing all its natural resources that a sustainable future for Africa and its people can be secured. — Nicky Oppenheimer

There are committed Indonesian filmmakers who are committed supporters of 'The Act Of Killing.' — Joshua Oppenheimer

May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue? — Nicky Oppenheimer

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history. — Nicky Oppenheimer

I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there. — Nicky Oppenheimer

My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards. — Joshua Oppenheimer

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Groves, with his eye for sizing up people who could get things done, saw the deep ambition Oppenheimer covered with his surface charm. — Garry Wills

Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication. — Jerry Oppenheimer

I had been working with a community of survivors who had lost their relatives and were too scared to talk about it. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Were they like Star Trek's Star-Base 9, polyglot, — Stephen Oppenheimer

Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory. — Joshua Oppenheimer

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity. — Joshua Oppenheimer

The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.) — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I really believe that the past is beyond our grasp and what is essential about the past is something unspeakable. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Here at great expense,' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots. — Steve Sheinkin

Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered. — Joshua Oppenheimer

How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy? — Sting

One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different. — Nicky Oppenheimer

We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor. — Nicky Oppenheimer

There is something irreversible about acquiring knowledge; and the simulation of the search for it differs in a most profound way from the reality. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally. — Frank Oppenheimer

America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders. — Nicky Oppenheimer

'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation). — J. Robert Oppenheimer

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I have a British and an American passport. — Joshua Oppenheimer

SumeBAccess to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt. — Joshua Oppenheimer

We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past. — Joshua Oppenheimer

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

I don't think there's a morally perfect way to do anything in life, but I'm not a filmmaker who tries to hide my mess. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill. — Nicky Oppenheimer

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end. — Kai Bird

Genius sees the answer before the question. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

I am literally become death, destroyer of actual worlds. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

The best way to learn is to teach — Frank Oppenheimer

I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general. — Joshua Oppenheimer

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice. — Joshua Oppenheimer