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All Quotes by author - Graham Moore

" Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He's one of the great geniuses of the 20th century - who was horribly persecuted for being gay - and I'm a kid from Chicago. "

" Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider. "

" A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film. "

" Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible. "

" Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff. "

" Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving. "

" Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway. "

" Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life. "

" Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice. "

" Everyone remembers the pop-quiz hotshot bit from 'Speed' because it's extremely funny, and it's really smart and really witty. And the notion that action movies can have dialogue that pops just as well as the explosions is something that I hope more people continue to remember. "

" I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition. "

" I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book. "

" I feel very Midwestern at my core. "

" I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it. "

" If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets? "

" If you're going to make a film, and you're going to have dialogue, and you want to take the characters seriously, let's understand what they're saying. If there is going to be technical dialogue, let's render it in a way that the audience can understand it and expect that it's not going to be so far over their heads. "

" I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to. "

" I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him. "

" I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!' "

" I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me. "

" I like historical things; I like researching things. "

" I love the filmmaking process. It can be loud sometimes, and people love having conference calls, so working on a book is the polar opposite. It's very relaxing. "

" I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones. "

" I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be. "

" I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much. "

" In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses. "

" I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it. "

" I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life. "

" I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo. "

" I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons. "

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