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" To me, it's mind-boggling to think that homosexuality was forbidden up until 1967. "
Morten Tyldum
Me
Forbidden
Think
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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? "
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" It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die. "
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Find
" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" We're very skeptical of people who are too perfect. "
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" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "
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Just
" We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won. "
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Take For Granted
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" 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. "
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Myself
Movies
" I don't think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested. "
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Interested
People
" 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. "
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" 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 never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it. "
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Love
" 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. "
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World
Yourself
Step
" I always felt Harrison Ford looked like he's about to shoot himself when he's carrying his own gun. He always looked afraid; he's not just this tough guy, you know? "
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Own
" 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. "
Morten Tyldum
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Ideas
Time
" We like flawed people. "
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Flawed
" 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. "
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" To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think. "
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Ideas
" I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do. "
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" I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser. "
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Say
Imitation
" 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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Me
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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