Graham Moore

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

Alan Turing, to me, always felt like an outsider's outsider.

I think I always felt like an outsider, like a weirdo.

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.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

I love the filmmaking process. It can be loud sometimes, and people love having conference calls, so working on a book is the polar opposite. It's very relaxing.

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?

In my experience, depression was not something that has been cured so much as managed, like a lot of illnesses.

Depression is something I've dealt with every day of my life.

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.