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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? "

Morten Tyldum

Sex

Character

Gay

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Romantic

Heart

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Sometimes

About

" I love William Gibson. "

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

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

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Film

Movies

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

" 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. "

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Great

Surroundings

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

" 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. "

" We like flawed people. "

Morten Tyldum

People

Flawed

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

You

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

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

" 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. "

" Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. "

" 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. "

Morten Tyldum

Story

Design

" Seeing the first edit is the worst. "

" As a filmmaker, I don't want to limit myself to one kind of movie. After 'Headhunters,' I went to Hollywood and read a lot of scripts: lots of action thrillers and heist movies, and superhero films. "

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

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

" I like movies where you can't just put them all in one box. "

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