A collection of the most chilling Oppenheimer movie quotes. These lines are sure to stick with you for days, weeks, months to come.
Most Chilling Oppenheimer Movie Quotes
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“We imagine a future and our imaginings horrify us.”
“Theory will only take us so far.”
“The world will remember this day.”
“I don’t know if we can be trusted with such a weapon. But we have no choice.”
“If we don’t let scientists bring their families, we’ll never get the best.”
“I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.”
“I feel we have blood on our hands.”
“Are you a communist?”
“We could set fire to the world’s atmosphere.”
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“They’ll remember who dropped it.”
“There’s a chance.”
“The Russians have a bomb. We’re supposed to be years ahead of them.”
“Compartmentalization was supposed to be the protocol.”
“The world is changing, reforming. This is your moment.”
“This is a national emergency.”
“They just fired the starting gun.”
“We’re in a race against the Nazis, and I know what it means if the Nazis have a bomb.”
“Since when are you British?”
“Since they said I couldn’t be German.”
“They are putting my people in camps.”
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“We’ve got one hope. All America’s industrial might and scientific innovation connected here, a secret laboratory in the middle of nowhere.”
“Keep everyone there til it’s done.”
“Build them a town.”
“Let’s go recruit some scientists.”
“Why would I leave my family?”
“How about because this is the most important thing to ever happen in the history of the world!”
“I’m not a soldier.”
“You know Isotopes. You know explosives.”
“It’s about unleashing a strong force before the Nazis do.”
“Hear you got a little town.”
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“You’re the greatest improvisor. But this you can’t do in your head.”
“Nobody knows what to believe.”
“No one is leaving Los Alomos.”
“There is no proof there was a spy.”
“You can convince anyone with anything. Even yourself.”
“You felt your judgement was sound on who on the team could be trusted?”
“Are we saying there’s a chance that when we push that button, we destroy the world?”
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“It’s happening, isn’t it?”
“This is a matter of life and death.”
“I can perform this miracle.”
“World War II would be over. Our boys would come home.”
“I know the Nazis can’t. We have no choice.”
“Is anyone ever going to tell the truth about what’s happening here?”
“Would the Japanese surrender if they knew what was coming?”
“They won’t fear it until they understand it. And they won’t understand it until they’ve used it.”
“The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed.”
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“It made him the most important man who ever lived.”
“The man who moved the Earth.”
“It will be for them.”
“Something more important.”
“I fear we did.”
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About Oppenheimer
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an IMAX®-shot epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer. Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.
The cast includes Dane DeHaan (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets), Dylan Arnold (Halloween franchise), David Krumholtz (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs), Alden Ehrenreich (Solo: A Star Wars Story) and Matthew Modine (The Dark Knight Rises).
The film is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin. The film is produced by Emma Thomas, Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Christopher Nolan.
Oppenheimer is filmed in a combination of IMAX® 65mm and 65mm large-format film photography including, for the first time ever, sections in IMAX® black and white analogue photography.
Oppenheimer comes to theaters on July 21st.
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