Morten Tyldum Quotes

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Morten Tyldum

Profession : Director

Birth : May 19, 1967

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

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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?

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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If you want the human psyche, how we deal with humans in these situations, WWII is a very tangled place to go.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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I don't think you pick your projects; you just fall in love with it, and it just becomes something you have to do.

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

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

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

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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.

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