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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. "

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" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

People

World

War

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

Morten Tyldum

Romantic

Heart

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967. "

Morten Tyldum

Forbidden

Think

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

Great

Surroundings

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I love William Gibson. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 'Headhunters' was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood - a lot of heightened hero movies. "

Morten Tyldum

Film

Movies

" I love using drama and humour. "