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" If you know someone's secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets? "
Graham Moore
Know
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Someone
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film. "
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" Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible. "
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" 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. "
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" In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses. "
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" Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life. "
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" I like historical things; I like researching things. "
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" When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will. "
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" 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. "
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" I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book. "
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" Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff. "
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" 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. "
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Think
Life
" Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider. "
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" I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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Suicide
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Gay
" I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing. "
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Job
Started
Day
" I was not a successful TV comedy writer. "
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TV
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Writer
" I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo. "
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Like
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" I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition. "
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Tradition
Slow
Values
" 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. "
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Place
Think
Movies
" One thing that I always loved about, say, 'Raiders of the Lost Ark', is that Indiana Jones gets the Ark of the Covenant about sixty percent of the way through the movie. And then the rest of it is get-out-alive. To me, that's really cool. Because he's the one you care about at the end of the day. "
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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. "
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Right
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Science
Space
" I felt like Alan Turing's story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, 'I never heard this story.' It's such an amazing story that people don't believe it. "
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Believe
Amazing
Say
" 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. "
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Story
Way
" I feel very Midwestern at my core. "
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" 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. "
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