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" 'Headhunters' was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood - a lot of heightened hero movies. "
Morten Tyldum
Film
Me
Movies
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" I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human. "
Morten Tyldum
You
Explore
Go
" I didn't know anybody who was a filmmaker - there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. "
Morten Tyldum
School
Reading
Loved
" I think that the test for taking on a project is to try and list all the reasons not to do it. When you find yourself running out of reasons, and you still have to do it, it's the right thing to do. "
Morten Tyldum
Yourself
Find
Think
" I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That's when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do. "
Morten Tyldum
Film
Left
School
" I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts. "
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Superhero
Myself
Hollywood
" If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go. "
Morten Tyldum
Want
You
Place
" I'm such a romantic at heart. "
Morten Tyldum
Romantic
Heart
" I love using drama and humour. "
Morten Tyldum
Humour
Drama
I Love
" Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile. "
Morten Tyldum
Strong
Same
Awkward
" It's not every actor that can play a genius. "
Morten Tyldum
Actor
Play
Every
" I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it. "
Morten Tyldum
Thought
Well
Love
" I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. "
Morten Tyldum
Felt
British
Always
" Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated. "
Morten Tyldum
Trying
Explain
Complicated
" Bob Dylan is someone that - I don't care how long into the future it is - somebody will still play Bob Dylan. He will always survive. "
Morten Tyldum
Play
Will
Care
" You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody. "
Morten Tyldum
Finding
You
Step
" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "
Morten Tyldum
You
Box
Just
" If I did the structure and had this thing about a straight character, I would never have a sex scene to prove that he's heterosexual. If I have a gay character in a movie, I need to have a sex scene in it - just to prove that he's gay? "
Morten Tyldum
Sex
Character
Gay
" Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it. Then you spend half a year in a dark room editing your film, and you don't talk to anybody. "
Morten Tyldum
You
Dark
Care
" I love William Gibson. "
Morten Tyldum
Gibson
Love
William
" In every Kubrick movie, there is so much great thought put into the surroundings. It's almost like the sets are huge characters in the movie at all times. "
Morten Tyldum
Like
Great
Surroundings
" Sci-fi is about 'what if this happened,' and 'what would you do.' You can play around with social dilemmas, or look at society or, in my case, relationships, in a very different way. "
Morten Tyldum
You
Look
Play
" You find a story - or more importantly, you find some characters - that you want to be around as a filmmaker. The style and how we're going to shoot it and how we're going to design it and how it's all going to feel and look depends on that story. They tell me how I should shoot it. "
Morten Tyldum
Story
Design
Me
" I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens. "
Morten Tyldum
Planet
Always
Either
" Love is not selfish. Love is something else. "
Morten Tyldum
Selfish
Else
Love
" Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength. "
Morten Tyldum
Fearless
Obstacle
Strength
" We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home. "
Morten Tyldum
Home
Everything
Drama
" To me, Alan Turing was a mystery - it was sort of like something I needed to unravel. And he was also obsessed with puzzles. So I wanted to make the movie like a mystery, like a puzzle that you're piecing together. "
Morten Tyldum
You
Like
Me
" To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967. "
Morten Tyldum
Me
Forbidden
Think
" Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking. "
Morten Tyldum
Someone
You
Just Because
" Thank God sci-fi has moved away from spaceships fighting aliens! Now it's a place where you can explore contemporary issues or emotional feelings. You can put it all in a different setting. "
Morten Tyldum
You
Fighting
Place