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" 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. "

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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. "

Morten Tyldum

Hope

Character

I Can

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

" This is a man who was 23 years old when he theorized the idea of creating a programmable machine, and in that way, Turing foresaw computers and artificial intelligence. These were revolutionary ideas at that time. "

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

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

" We like flawed people. "

Morten Tyldum

People

Flawed

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

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

" 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. "

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

Morten Tyldum

Romantic

Heart

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" '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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

Story

Design

" 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. "

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

" When you go to the movies, you expect the movie to create a world that you can immerse yourself in, that you can step into. Sci-fi is a beautiful way of doing that. "

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

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

Morten Tyldum

Sometimes

About

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