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

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

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

" This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time. "

" Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" It's great to try another format and be part of telling a story over ten episodes. "

" As a director, one of my biggest jobs is trying to see what actually works for the actor. "

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

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

" 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. "

" We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won. "

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" 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. "

" I love William Gibson. "

" Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking. "

" When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

" We like flawed people. "

" I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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