Graham Moore
Graham Moore
alan century geniuses great horribly kid
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.
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.
kids messages different
I would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like she doesn't fit in anywhere. You do. Stay weird. Stay different, and then when it's your turn and you are standing on this stage please pass the same message along.
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Everyone has strange teenage years. It's not like I can claim some particularly unique set of high school horrors. I think I was just an awkward kid who never felt comfortable in his own skin. I think I was alone a lot by circumstance and then by choice.
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I think everyone practices their Oscars acceptance speech with a shampoo bottle, and I've done my fair share of them. It's really surreal to be able to do it in real life.
alan camera deserved exciting front life page passionate reading sort standing wikipedia
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.
computer huge
When I was a teenager, I was a huge computer nerd. I went to computer programming camp. I went to space camp.
human
The only way for something human to feel human is to convince others that it is.
chicago democratic growing office politics time worked
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.
cured experience
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?
flawed
I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.
tv
I was not a successful TV comedy writer.
job sound
I was a sound engineer. That was my day job when I started writing.