Graham Moore
Graham Moore
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When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
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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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We always knew that we didn't want to show Alan Turing in the act of suicide - it was our feeling that would tip over into melodrama too quickly and seem over-the-top.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A lot of biopics to me feel very much like someone is standing in front of the camera and is reading a Wikipedia page to you, like someone is reciting event. Did you know this happened? Did you know that happened? But Alan Turing's life deserved a sort of passionate film, and an exciting film.
human
The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.
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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.
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In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.
power
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?
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I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.
tv
I was not a successful TV comedy writer.
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I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.