Top 44 Morten Tyldum Quotes

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.

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

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.

I’m such a romantic at heart.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

As a filmmaker, I don’t want to limit myself to one kind of movie.

I don’t think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.

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.

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

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.

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

‘The Imitation Game’ is a very British film.

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

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

I love when people say ‘Imitation Game’ is such a crowd pleaser.

I left Norway after high school and moved to Manhattan and went to film school in Manhattan. That’s when I really found out that this was my calling and what I wanted to do.

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.

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.

I’m a Coen Brothers fan – especially their early work.

You never have any idea where your movie’s going to go when you’re shooting – you’re in this little bubble.

It’s not every actor that can play a genius.

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

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.

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.

We’re very skeptical of people who are too perfect.

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

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 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.

Seeing the first edit is the worst.

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?

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

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.