Quotes from Morten Tyldum

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

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.

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

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

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

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

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Just because someone or something thinks differently than you do, it doesn't mean that it's not thinking.

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

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.

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

Filmmaking is about moments. In real life, things might take six months, a year, but [in filmmaking] you have to create the moment where it happened.

We like flawed people.

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

Turing was very strong and driven and, at the same, so awkward and fragile.

I love William Gibson.

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 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.