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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Graham Moore

Important

Gay

Great

" 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. "

Graham Moore

Morning

Writing

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

Graham Moore

Much

Always

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

Graham Moore

Different

Feel

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

" When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece. "

" Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code. "

" One of the tricky things about sort of larger, comic-book action movies is that the scale is so big that they have to save the world at the end of every movie, and so at the end of each of the films, either Chicago or New York end up getting obliterated. "

Graham Moore

New York

Action

" 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. "

Graham Moore

School

Fear

" 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 was not a successful TV comedy writer. "

Graham Moore

Successful

Writer

" 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. "

" 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. "

Graham Moore

Thought

Lose

" 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. "

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

Graham Moore

Felt

Outsider

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

Graham Moore

Historical

Researching