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" I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by how little I actually knew. I was amazed this wasn't common knowledge. Why wasn't he on the front covers of my history books? He's one of the great thinkers of the last century, and he was sort of pushed into the shadows. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" What you want, as a filmmaker, is to be obsessed with and fall in love with the material. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

" You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.' "

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

" 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? "

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

" I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical. "

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

" 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. "

" World War II was the last 'pure' war. It was purely heroic. There was someone who tried to conquer the world, who tried to exterminate people. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

Morten Tyldum

Romantic

Heart

" 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. "

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

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

" We like flawed people. "

Morten Tyldum

People

Flawed

" I love using drama and humour. "

" It's not every actor that can play a genius. "

" 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. "

" Turing was uncompromisingly honest. As soon as he didn't think you were interesting or smart, he'd just turn around and walk away, even if you were in the middle of a sentence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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