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Graham Moore Quotes

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.

– Graham Moore

I did an adaptation for a movie called ‘The Devil in the White City’ by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.

– Graham Moore

I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.

– Graham Moore

I like historical things; I like researching things.

– Graham Moore

I felt like Alan Turing’s story was such an important story to tell, and it was so wonderful to write the script and other people find it and say, ‘I never heard this story.’ It’s such an amazing story that people don’t believe it.

– Graham Moore

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

– Graham Moore

The representation of gay characters on screen is important for us all to think about because there are sadly too few representations of gay characters on screen in mainstream cinema. If Marvel starts making movies about gay superheroes, then we’ll be in a really great place. We’re not at that place.

– Graham Moore

When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.

– Graham Moore

I feel very Midwestern at my core.

– Graham Moore

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

My mother, she worked in the mayor’s office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

– Graham Moore

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

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

– Graham Moore

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we’re all bad at stuff.

– Graham Moore

If you know someone’s secret, what power does that give you? How much power does that really give you? What can you do with secrets?

– Graham Moore

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There’s a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

– Graham Moore

Alan Turing is so important to me and to the world, and his story is so important to be told, so it was a big thing to take up, and I was a little petrified. Like, who am I to write the Alan Turing story? He’s one of the great geniuses of the 20th century – who was horribly persecuted for being gay – and I’m a kid from Chicago.

– Graham Moore

When I think of Sherlock Holmes, I think of a guy who can wander into the confusion of life and sort of pluck out answers at will.

– Graham Moore

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

Turing was always a legend among computer/geeky kids. He was such an outsider in his own time, and because of that, he was able to see things differently. It was a story that had been well told in books, onstage and on TV, but never on film.

– Graham Moore

I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.

– Graham Moore

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

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

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I’ve known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him.

– Graham Moore

Among tech-minded kids, I think Alan Turing was a tremendous inspiration. He was a guy that was so different than the people around him. He was an outsider in his own time, but because he was an outsider is precisely why he was able to accomplish things nobody thought was possible.

– Graham Moore

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