A biography for Morten Tyldumhasn’t been written yet.
“You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble.”
“Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile.”
“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.”
“To me, Turing is as much of a philosopher as he is a mathematician because his ideas deal with what it means to think.”
“I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box.”
“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.”
“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.”
“It's not every actor that can play a genius.”
“We're very skeptical of people who are too perfect.”
“You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'”
“You first do the assembly cut, which is basically the cut that mirrors the script. You've got to start with 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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Sometimes I think I don't do anything but make, watch, and talk about films.”
“Turing was fearless. He's extremely direct, which can be seen as socially awkward, and that becomes both his big obstacle but also, in many ways, his strength.”
“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.”
“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 don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do.”
“I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser.”