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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. "
Morten Tyldum
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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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" 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. "
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" I'm such a romantic at heart. "
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" I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn't common knowledge. Why wasn't he on the front covers of my history books? He's one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows. "
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Why
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" I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed. "
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" 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. "
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" You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that. "
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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. "
Morten Tyldum
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School
" Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile. "
Morten Tyldum
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Same
Awkward
" 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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Understanding
Language
" I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do. "
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" The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that. "
Morten Tyldum
Something
About
Think
" 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'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. "
Morten Tyldum
Film
People
Seen
" I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts. "
Morten Tyldum
Superhero
Myself
Hollywood
" 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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Lot
Myself
Movies
" It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die. "
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You
Project
Find
" We like flawed people. "
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People
Like
Flawed
" I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work. "
Morten Tyldum
Brothers
Early Work
Fan
" For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team. "
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Imitation
Team
Support
" 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 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. "
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Hope
Character
I Can
" We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won. "
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Now
Take For Granted
Remind
" I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. "
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Felt
British
Always
" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "
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Box
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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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" '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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Film
Me
Movies
" I always felt Harrison Ford looked like he's about to shoot himself when he's carrying his own gun. He always looked afraid; he's not just this tough guy, you know? "
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Tough
You
Own
" 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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Want
You
Place
" I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical. "
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