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" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

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Flawed

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

You

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

Film

Movies

" I love using drama and humour. "

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

" It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die. "

" I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens. "

" 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. "

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

" 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

" We have to remind ourselves that what we take for granted now is hard-won. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

Great

Surroundings

" I'm a Coen Brothers fan - especially their early work. "

" 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. "

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

" I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed. "

" I'm very tired, but this is what every filmmaker dreams about: that their $15 million, under-the-radar film is now being seen by so many people. "

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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? "

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