Graham Moore
Graham Moore
different being-weird
Stay Weird, Stay Different.
kids years want
When I was 16 years old I tried to kill myself because I felt different and that I didn't belong. Now I'm here, and I want this moment to be for that kid who feels weird or different. Stay weird, stay different.
simple men thinking
Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.
discovery exhilaration moments
There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery
morning eggs paper
Love grew commendably dependable - love was eggs, love was ham, love was the morning paper.
art check fact language sensation sort talk
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.
amazing committed english true
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.'
guy life pluck sherlock sort wander
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.
bad
Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.
life
Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.
adaptation devil love white
I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
almost coming finishing four funny novel
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.
job sound
I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.
flawed
I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.