74 Quotes by Morten Tyldum

As a director, one of my biggest jobs is trying to see what actually works for the actor.

Love is not selfish. Love is something else.

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

Thank God sci-fi has moved away from spaceships fighting aliens! Now it's a place where you can explore contemporary issues or emotional feelings. You can put it all in a different setting.

Sci-fi is about 'what if this happened,' and 'what would you do.' You can play around with social dilemmas, or look at society or, in my case, relationships, in a very different way.

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.

I love using drama and humour.

I didn't know anybody who was a filmmaker - there was no film industry where I grew up. I never knew what a director really did until I was in high school and I started reading up about it. I've always loved films, and I always felt like a storyteller.

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.