Morten Tyldum

“I think that the test for taking on a project is to try and list all the reasons not to do it. When you find yourself running out of reasons, and you still have to do it, it's the right thing to do.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“I'm from Norway, but I always felt like I'd grown up with British culture. We had everything from the BBC on our TV, so British drama seems very close to home.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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 don't see myself directing the same movie twice.”

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

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

“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?”

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

“Trying to explain Turing's work in encryption and decryption? It's complicated.”