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" As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films. "

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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. "

" 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 don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested. "

" I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you. "

" This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time. "

" World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people. "

" You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.' "

" Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background. "

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" I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts. "

" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won. "

" Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films. "

" If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go. "

" You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that. "

" I love William Gibson. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking. "

" I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser. "

" 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. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

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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. "

" We're very skeptical of people who are too perfect. "

" I love history, and I thought I knew history well, but I was shocked by how little I knew about it. "

" As a director, one of my biggest jobs is trying to see what actually works for the actor. "

" 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. "

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