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" Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. "

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" I hope I can be a filmmaker where every movie will be different, and not make one type of movie. I'm always looking for a character that interests me. "

" I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" In every Kubrick movie, there is so much great thought put into the surroundings. It's almost like the sets are huge characters in the movie at all times. "

" We're very skeptical of people who are too perfect. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there's something very relatable about that. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Thank God sci-fi has moved away from spaceships fighting aliens! Now it's a place where you can explore contemporary issues or emotional feelings. You can put it all in a different setting. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

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

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