101 Quotes by Graham Moore

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    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.'

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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.

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    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.

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    Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.

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

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

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    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.

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    I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!'

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