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" 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

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Morten Tyldum

Great

Surroundings

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

Morten Tyldum

Forbidden

Think

" 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 know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human. "

Morten Tyldum

You

Explore

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

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

" 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. "