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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" I think that the test for taking on a project is to try and list all the reasons not to do it. When you find yourself running out of reasons, and you still have to do it, it's the right thing to do. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

" I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens. "

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

" 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. "

" I love William Gibson. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't see myself directing the same movie twice. "

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

" We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home. "

" I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested. "

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

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

" I love using drama and humour. "

" 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. "

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