"Harry S. Truman: [to Oppenheimer] You think anyone in Hiroshima or Nagasaki gives a shit who built the bomb? They care who dropped it. I did. Hiroshima isn’t about you."

"Once it’s used, nuclear war, maybe all war, becomes unthinkable."

"We’re theorists. Yes? We imagine a future, and our imaginings horrify us. They won’t fear it until they understand it, and they won’t understand it until they’ve used it. When the world learns the terrible secret of Los Alamos, our work here will ensure a peace mankind has never seen -- a peace based on the kind of international cooperation that Roosevelt always envisaged."

"[to Szilard, referring to the atomic bomb] Just because we’re building it doesn’t mean we get to decide how it’s used."

"[referring to Oppenheimer] A lot of scientists blame me, but how was I supposed to protect him?"

"Jason Clarke - Roger Robb"

"If atomic weapons are to be added to the arsenals of a warring world, then the day will come when people will curse the name of Los Alamos."

"America and Russia may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life."

"Survival in Washington is about knowing how to get things done."

"Algebra is like sheet music. The important thing isn't, "can you read music," it's "can you hear it.""

"[referring to the hydrogen bomb] If it could put us ahead again, the President of the United States needs to know about it. And if there’s a possibility that the Russians know about it from a spy at Los Alamos, then we’ve gotta get going."

"You sit there, day after day, letting them pick our lives to pieces. Why won’t you fight?"

"Harrison Gilbertson - Philip Morrison"

"Amateurs seek the sun. Get eaten. Power stays in the shadows."

"Harry Groener - Gale W. McGee"

"[to Oppenheimer] When you speak, they hear a prophet. When Strauss speaks, they hear themselves...a prophet can’t be wrong. Not once."

"Emma Dumont - Jackie Oppenheimer"

"You’ve served America well, and if this is the reward she has to offer, then perhaps you should turn your back on her."

"John Gowans - Ward Evans"

"So here we are, lost in your quantum world of probabilities and needing certainty."

"You say you want me to teach you how to think. Thinking … is a lonely business."

"Since Socrates and Plato, we usually call thinking to be engaged in that silent dialogue between me and myself. In refusing to be a person, [[Adolf Eichmann|"

"I wrote no defense of Eichmann, but I did try to reconcile the shocking mediocrity of the man with his staggering deeds. Trying to understand him is not the same thing as forgiveness. And furthermore, I see it as my responsibility to understand. It is the responsibility of anyone who dares to put pen to paper on this subject."

"Western tradition mistakenly assumes that the greatest evils of mankind arise from selfishness. But in our century, evil has proven to be more radical than was previously thought. And we now know that the truest evil, the radical evil, has nothing to do with selfishness or any such understandable, sinful motives. Instead, it is based on the following phenomenon: making human beings superfluous as human beings. The entire concentration camp system was designed to convince the prisoners they were unnecessary before they were murdered. In the concentration camps men were taught that punishment was not connected to a crime, that exploitation wouldn't profit anyone, and that work produced no results. The camp is a place where every activity and human impulse is senseless. Where, in other words, senselessness is daily produced anew. So, to summarize: if it is true that in the final stage of totalitarianism, an absolute evil emerges, absolute as it no longer relates to human motives, then it is equally true that without it, without totalitarianism, we would never have known the truly radical nature of evil."

"James Urbaniak - Grand View High School Principal"

"Connor Trinneer - Phil Newhart"

"David Lynch - John Ford"

"Lane Factor - Dean"

"Cooper Dodson - Turkey"

"Gabriel Bateman - Roger"

"Greg Grunberg - Bernie Fein"

"Jan Hoag - Nona"

"Stephen Smith - Angelo"

"Isabelle Kusman - Claudia Denning"

"Chandler Lovelle - Renee"

"Oakes Fegley - Chad Thomas"

"Chloe East - Monica Sherwood"

"Gustavo Escobar - Sal"

"Sam Rechner - Logan Hall"

"Nicolas Cantu - Hark"

"Gabriel LaBelle - Sammy Fabelman"

"Michelle Williams - Mitzi Fabelman"

"Paul Dano - Burt Fabelman"

"John Ford: [to Sammy] Now remember this! When the horizon's at the bottom, it's interesting. When the horizon's at the top, it's interesting. When the horizon's in the middle, it's boring as shit. Now, good luck to you. And get the fuck out of my office!"

"Art will give you crowns in heaven and laurels on Earth, but also, it will tear your heart out and leave you lonely. You'll be a shanda [disgrace in Yiddish] for your loved ones. An exile in the desert. A gypsy. Art is no game! Art is dangerous as a lion's mouth. It'll bite your head off."

"Bennie Loewy: [to Sammy] Think whatever bad things you want about me, kiddo, but you stop making movies, it’ll break your mother’s heart. You will break her heart, I mean it. [he tears up] And she doesn’t deserve that, not from anybody. Least of all from you."

"Seth Rogen - Bennie Loewy"

"Keeley Karsten - Natalie Fabelman"

"Monica Sherwood: [to Sammy] Sometimes we can't fix things, Sam. All we can do, is suffer."

"We've gone too far in our story to actually say "the end.""