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" 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. "
Graham Moore
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" 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. "
Graham Moore
Friends
Nerdy
Teenagers
" I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing. "
Graham Moore
Job
Started
Day
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Things
My Life
Good
" Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life. "
Graham Moore
My Life
Life
Depression
" Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' "
Graham Moore
Suicide
Amazing
Gay
" 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
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Feel
World
Sad
" 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
Me
" Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination. "
Graham Moore
Amazing
Science
Space
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Challenge
Story
Way
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Think
Growing Up
Generation
" 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
Up
Action
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Write
Him
Always
" The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we'll be in a really great place. We're not at that place. "
Graham Moore
Place
Think
Movies
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Book
Process
People
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Understand
Want
You
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Speech
Think
Life
" I like historical things; I like researching things. "
Graham Moore
Historical
Like
Researching
" 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
Me
" I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo. "
Graham Moore
Always
Like
Outsider
" 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. "
Graham Moore
School
Alone
High School
" I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones. "
Graham Moore
Much
More
Always
" When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp. "
Graham Moore
Computer
Huge
Nerd
" 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
Like
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Think
Look
Language
" Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider. "
Graham Moore
Felt
Like
Outsider
" 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
" 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. "
Graham Moore
Long
Growing Up
Time
" Everyone remembers the pop-quiz hotshot bit from 'Speed' because it's extremely funny, and it's really smart and really witty. And the notion that action movies can have dialogue that pops just as well as the explosions is something that I hope more people continue to remember. "
Graham Moore
People
Smart
Hope
" I was not a successful TV comedy writer. "
Graham Moore
TV
Successful
Writer