Morten Tyldum

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

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

“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.”

“I'm such a romantic at heart.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Thank God sci-fi has moved away from spaceships fighting aliens! Now it's a place where you can explore contemporary issues or emotional feelings. You can put it all in a different setting.”

“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.”

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

“We like flawed people.”

“'Headhunters' was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood - a lot of heightened hero movies.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I love using drama and humour.”

“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.”

“I always felt Harrison Ford looked like he's about to shoot himself when he's carrying his own gun. He always looked afraid; he's not just this tough guy, you know?”