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

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

" I love William Gibson. "

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

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

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "