Oppenheimer Movie Quotes

And NBC is letting you walk away with all this?” Remnick asked. “Who is this person at NBC? Oppenheim?” “Oppenheim,” I confirmed. “And he’s a screenwriter, you say?” “He wrote Jackie,” I replied. “That,” Remnick said gravely, “was a bad movie.

They wont fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they have use it. When the world learns of the terrible secret of Los Alamos, it will ensure a peace mankind has never seen. Peace based on the kind of international cooperation that Roosevelt always envisaged.

the Oppenheimers didn’t really operate as a unit, and when they did things together they mainly did them for Johanna’s sake. Yes, all five of them got dressed up to see The Nutcracker every year, because it was a family tradition. Yes, they walked over the bridge to Chinatown on Christmas Day and then went to see a movie, because that was what New York Jews did (if they weren’t actually observing the holiday!). Yes, they celebrated the magical anniversary of the (scheduled) birth together on Martha’s Vineyard. These were things the five Oppenheimers undertook together, but it didn’t mean they had tangible intimacy with one another’s lives, or (especially) that they actually liked one another. Sally’s family was not given to warm gestures, reassurances, encouragements, deferrals. They were not one another’s “biggest fans” or “persons.” They didn’t have one another’s backs. They weren’t, you know, close, and despite the tragic efforts of our mother, none of them ever tried to pretend they were.