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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
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
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
From 2005 to 2010, I was exclusively shooting 'The Act of Killing' and then editing it.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
In Denmark, the annual Christmas party is probably the most important cultural institution in the country.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I had had a continuing smoldering fury about the treatment of Jews in Germany.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Were they like Star Trek's Star-Base 9, polyglot,
— Stephen Oppenheimer
I believe every time you film anybody, you create reality with that person - whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I have a British and an American passport.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I'm a big admirer of S21, and I really also like Rithy Panh's work in general.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
The best way to learn is to teach
— Frank Oppenheimer
Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.
— Frank Oppenheimer
There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.
— Joshua 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
Knowledge cannot be pursued without morality.
— Robert Oppenheimer
You can certainly destroy enough of humanity so that only the greatest act of faith can persuade you that what's left will be human.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
All we can do is find the courage to stand still and to look backwards.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
— J. Robert 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
A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.
— Michael Oppenheimer
We know too much for one man to know too much.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Diamonds are a key component in the campaign to make poverty history.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?
— Nicky Oppenheimer
Any father likes his son to take over from him if possible.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
There are committed Indonesian filmmakers who are committed supporters of 'The Act Of Killing.'
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Maybe General Groves was right. Maybe we should just banish thinking forever.
— J. Robert 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
The killers have built the society. The whole Indonesia is their platform. They run the country. They run the country.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I'm a great believer that, if you know how to operate in Africa, there are unbelievable opportunities.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
My background is in filmmaking, and my mentor is Dusan Makavejev, who combined fiction and documentary.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Performance is always oriented towards a spectator, towards an imagined audience and I was thinking who is their imagined audience?
— Joshua Oppenheimer
America is a country of entrepreneurship and great business leaders.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
Understanding is a lot like sex; it's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally.
— Frank 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
Waking from any fever dream, one retains, above all, impressions seared into memory.
— 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
Cinema is, of course, the great storytelling medium of modernity.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
We hunger for nobility: the rare words and acts that harmonize simplicity and truth.
— J. Robert 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 am literally become death, destroyer of actual worlds.
— 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
We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
I didn't really get any rigorous background in film history.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I'm against escapist entertainment.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Nobody ever flunked a science museum
— Frank Oppenheimer
My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
— J. Robert 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
Through the international hotel empire, the Hilton name has become synonymous with class and sophistication.
— Jerry 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
Genius sees the answer before the question.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
Diamonds are intrinsically worthless, except for the deep psychological need they fill.
— 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
'The Act of Killing' helped catalyze this basic transformation in how the media talks about the past.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
SumeBAccess to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
One likes at the point of production to realize the maximum value, and diamond producers are no different.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics.
— 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
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— Steve Sheinkin
Testimony always comes from people who are in some way disempowered.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
We're seeing diamonds coming back into favor.
— Nicky Oppenheimer
No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
'It worked.' (said after witnessing the first atomic detonation).
— J. Robert Oppenheimer