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" 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. "

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" 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!' "

Graham Moore

Writer

Who

Film

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

Graham Moore

Always

Outsider

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

Graham Moore

Felt

Outsider

" I feel very Midwestern at my core. "

" 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 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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Graham Moore

Different

Feel

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

Graham Moore

Much

Always

" I was not a successful TV comedy writer. "

Graham Moore

Successful

Writer

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

Graham Moore

Historical

Researching

" 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. "

Graham Moore

Camera

Reading

" We always knew that we didn't want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide - it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top. "

" 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. "

" 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