Graham Moore

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. ”

I had first heard about Alan Turing when I was a teenager. I've known about him since I was a kid, and I always wanted to write about him. ”

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. ”