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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

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

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

" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "

" To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think. "

" Love is not selfish. Love is something else. "

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

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

" 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. "

" To do a movie about someone who actually lived gives you two responsibilities. You have to try to be accurate to the facts of what he did and what he was like as a character. Then, at the same time, you have a responsibility to make a movie that entertains and can get an audience. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "