Norwegian - Director | May 19, 1967 -
I always wanted to do a sci-fi movie, but most sci-fi scripts are either about saving the planet or fighting aliens.
Morten Tyldum
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Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile.
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It's a blessing to find a project you feel you have to make or you'll die.
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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.
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It's not every actor that can play a genius.
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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?
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I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.
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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.
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Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.
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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.
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To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.
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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.
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