19 Graham Moore Quotes for You to Enjoy

Graham Moore

American Writer

Born: Oct 18, 1981

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I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much. Graham Moore

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code. Graham Moore

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A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film. Graham Moore

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When you use the language of 'fact checking' to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's 'Water Lilies.' That's not what water lilies look like; that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feel like. That's the goal of the piece. Graham Moore

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Space camp was actually, like, the best summer of my life. It was amazing. But I thought I wanted to be a computer programmer, and among computer science folks, Turing is this object of cult-like fascination. Graham Moore

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I had been a lifelong Alan Turing obsessive. Among incredibly nerdy teenagers, without a lot of friends, Alan Turing was always this luminary figure we'd all look up to. Graham Moore

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'The Imitation Game' is a celebration of Alan Turing's life and legacy, and Joan's final monologue is our eulogy. It's the thing we all wished we could have said to him. Graham Moore

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I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me. Graham Moore

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I like historical things; I like researching things. Graham Moore

Like Historical Researching Things

Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this amazing true story about this gay English mathematician who committed suicide in the 1950s.' And they would be like, 'Please don't ever write that script. That is an unmakeable film.' Graham Moore

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The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is. Graham Moore

Others Way Something Only Feel Human Convince

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons. Graham Moore

Think Feel Like Weirdos Different Different Reasons Reasons

Britain in 1939 and 1940 really thought they were going to lose the war. It looked like they were going to lose. There was bombing every day, and people were literally starving. Graham Moore

War Day Every Day People Thought Lose Every Starving Like Looked Were Going Literally Really Bombing Britain

I was not a successful TV comedy writer. Graham Moore

Comedy TV Writer Successful

I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life. Graham Moore

Life Acceptance Real Life Think Everyone Able Shampoo Bottle Share Fair Fair Share Practices Real Surreal Done Them Really Oscars Speech

Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice. Graham Moore

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