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I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts. Morten Tyldum

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Our film society back home is so different from here. Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language. It's just figuring things out and understanding the codes and how the system of Hollywood compares to that of Norway. We don't even have agents. There's no studio system, no managers. Morten Tyldum

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

Love History Thought About Knew Well How Shocked Little

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. Morten Tyldum

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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. Morten Tyldum

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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. Morten Tyldum

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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. Morten Tyldum

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

Home Drama Our Everything TV Seems Had Very Close British

Sometimes you read something, and you have to read more and more about the background. Morten Tyldum

You Sometimes Background About Something More More And More Read

I don't see myself directing the same movie twice. Morten Tyldum

Myself See Directing Same Movie Twice

I don't know if it's a sadistic side or whatever, but you take characters and put them in really awful situations and make them go through that. And it's very satisfying as a director to explore that, to tell those stories and to explore those themes, because it is so human. Morten Tyldum

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