Graham Moore
Graham Moore
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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.
I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.
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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.