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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. "

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

" 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. "

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" I wanted to make a movie that celebrates the outsider, the one who is different, the one who is not normal - and show how important that is. "

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

" I didn't know anybody who was a filmmaker - there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller. "

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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. "

" Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. "

" 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. "

" The most serious problem doing biography is the matter of time because you have to shape events into a narrative of two hours; you have to create a dramatic arc. That can be a challenge. "

" Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength. "

" 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? "

" I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. "

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" For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team. "

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" To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967. "

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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. "

" We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home. "

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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. "

" 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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" To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think. "

" 'Headhunters' was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood - a lot of heightened hero movies. "