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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us. "

" 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. "

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

" When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will. "

" 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 feel very Midwestern at my core. "

" When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp. "

" 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. "

" My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time. "

" The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is. "

" One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day. "

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

" When I first starting writing, and no one was paying me, in order to feel like I had a real job, I would get out of bed, put on a jacket and tie every morning, and sit down at my desk. "

" I was not a successful TV comedy writer. "

" 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. "

" 'The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to 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!' "

" Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' "

" Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination. "

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

" I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing. "

" The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we'll be in a really great place. We're not at that place. "

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

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

" 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. "