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" When you watch a Hitchcock movie, you feel like learning back because there's a master in control. "

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

" 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? "

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

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

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

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

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

" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I love William Gibson. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 love using drama and humour. "

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

" 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? "