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

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" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I'm such a romantic at heart. "

" 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. "

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