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Morten Tyldum Quotes

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

– Morten Tyldum

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.

– Morten Tyldum

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

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

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

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

– Morten Tyldum

‘The Imitation Game’ is a very British film.

– Morten Tyldum

You never have any idea where your movie’s going to go when you’re shooting – you’re in this little bubble. 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

‘Headhunters’ was a breakthrough film for me, internationally, and I got offered a lot of scripts from Hollywood – a lot of heightened hero movies.

– Morten Tyldum

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.

– Morten Tyldum

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

– Morten Tyldum

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

– Morten Tyldum

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

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

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

– Morten Tyldum

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

– Morten Tyldum

The more shaded, flawed characters that are struggling, I think there’s something very relatable about that.

– Morten Tyldum

We like flawed people.

– Morten Tyldum

I’m such a romantic at heart.

– Morten Tyldum

I don’t think the biggest crime is to not sympathize with people. I think the biggest crime is to not be interested.

– Morten Tyldum

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

– Morten Tyldum

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

– Morten Tyldum

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