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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

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

" I love Fincher, as he has a great atmosphere and intensity. Also, I grew up watching Hitchcock movies, and there was something elegant in the way he plays with you and plays with the character and tricks you. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "