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" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 not every actor that can play a genius. "

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

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

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

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" 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. "

" I love William Gibson. "

" 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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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, 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

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" I'm a sci-fi fan, but a lot of the sci-fi you're getting is the same. It's very stereotypical. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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