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" I hope I can be a filmmaker where every movie will be different, and not make one type of movie. I'm always looking for a character that interests me. "
Morten Tyldum
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" 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. "
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" I love William Gibson. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser. "
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" Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films. "
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" We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won. "
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" Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated. "
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" I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people. "
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" I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens. "
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" Turing was uncompromisingly honest. As soon as he didn't think you were interesting or smart, he'd just turn around and walk away, even if you were in the middle of a sentence. "
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" For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team. "
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" It's great to try another format and be part of telling a story over ten episodes. "
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" Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers. "
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" I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested. "
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" If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go. "
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" 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? "
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" I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is. "
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" You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.' "
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" 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. "
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" To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it. "
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" I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. "
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" We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home. "
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