Graham Moore
Graham Moore
I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.
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I started a novel right before 'The Imitation Game,' so it's funny now, four years later, to be coming almost back to finishing it.
I like historical things; I like researching things.
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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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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 did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
life
Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.
bad
Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.
Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.
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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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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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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.'
believe cultural passed
I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.
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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.