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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. "

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" 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

" Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile. "

" I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human. "

Morten Tyldum

You

Explore

" I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed. "

" Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background. "

Morten Tyldum

Sometimes

About

" You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with that. "

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

Morten Tyldum

Film

Movies

" I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work. "

" 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. "

" I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts. "

" If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If I did the structure and had this thing about a straight character, I would never have a sex scene to prove that he's heterosexual. If I have a gay character in a movie, I need to have a sex scene in it - just to prove that he's gay? "

" It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die. "

" The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that. "

" Love is not selfish. Love is something else. "

" Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated. "

" 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. "

" To me, Alan Turing was a mystery - it was sort of like something I needed to unravel. And he was also obsessed with puzzles. So I wanted to make the movie like a mystery, like a puzzle that you're piecing together. "

Morten Tyldum

You

" 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? "

" You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

Morten Tyldum

Romantic

Heart

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

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

" When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control. "

" 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. "

" I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do. "

" 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. "

" 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. "